Perhaps you are wondering how this latest day stuck in the hospital went.  Here’s the report!

Yesterday’s final CT scan showed the bleed beginning to resolve.  Yay! So all was set for surgery today.  I was NPO–no food or drink–from midnight on, but got permission to skip the all-night IV fluid drip because of my previous horrible hospital-acquired edema  that pretty much disabled me for 3 weeks.  Then they kinda had to let me have ice chips this morning.

Surgery went well around midday and now—after 10 pm—Eric and I are in my observation alcove for the night (no more private room) and are enjoying ice cream after a delicious and long-awaited Panera soup, salad, and bread-and-butter dinner.  I think I ate enough to make up for all day’s no-food order!

We’re going for a walk around the floor soon, before Eric leaves for the night.  We walked 0.6 miles this morning before it was suddenly time to go to surgery.  I am feeling stronger in the legs every day, even in the hospital,

After he goes…New Yorker or Netflix w/ headphones until the dexamethasone I took late at 6 will let me fall asleep.  Patients in the neighboring alcoves seem to want the TVs on, even this late, so I will need the earplugs I received a few nights ago in an earlier loud alcove room down the hall.

We expect discharge tomorrow, whether early or late in the day.  Eric will be back in the morning to wait it out with me. Normally someone post-op with a brain bleed might be kept an extra day or two for Heparin and observation…but my neurosurgeon said he and my oncologist agreed they could only push me so far.