Yep. Going home.
6:31pm
:-)
Done?
6:23
Looks like the doctor is letting us go early, since MM isn’t bleeding, and is successfully up and about. :-)
-Micah
Crackers
6:15pm
MM is eating crackers now. It’s her first solid food since breakfast.
And ginger ale too. Not solid food. But it’s food.
Well, it’s not food necessarily. It’s beverage.
-Micah
Debriefing
5:58pm
The doctor is telling MM what to expect in the next few days, what to do and what not to do. Etc.
-Micah
Catheter out, bandage applied
5:45pm
The hour of waiting begins.
And it’s going to be another hour and a half… .
5:18pm
The doctor says that after she takes out the catheter, she’ll have to apply pressure to the wound (as it were) for at least ten minutes. Clotting must begin, you see, and it takes ten minutes minimum, she says.
Then we have to hang around for another hour for observation.
-Micah
It’s called a “catheter”
… evidently.
The doctor has arrived
5:12pm
The doctor has arrived, and will do the whole removing-of-the-lines and debriefing thing, I suspect. :-)
-Micah
Waiting
5:00pm
Waiting for the doctor now, to take out the ports or lines or whatever they are.
-Micah
Totally unhooked
4:40pm
Although she’s a little shaky, she can now get up and walk around. She’s completely detached from the machine. The ends of the lines are still in her neck; it’s just they’re capped and aren’t attached the machine anymore.
-Micah
