Post Surgery Day 1

It's a bit late, but here are the Facebook posts from yesterday:

• I got back to the hospital about 9:30
• Apparently Rory had been needing IV mess almost every hour
• Helped her eat French toast and an omelette (I didn't eat any of it for her) before the latest infusion started making her eyes heavy
• Christy and her parents were in the area so they stopped in for a nice visit with a very sleepy girl
• The visit was very good for everyone though
• Pharmacy here in town doesn't have on of her prescriptions and the pharmacist didn't want to fill the other one without talking to the doctor personally
• He expressed concern about what he thought was an unusually high dosage
• The hospital pharmacy partially filled the missing script, Monmouth has the other one, and the local pharmacist got his questions answered
• So now we just wait until Rory can go for at least a few hours without needing IV LEDs and can move around on her own
• About 11:30 now and she's getting some more sleep. Apparently it was a rough night thanks to a very "animated" patient down the hall who insisted on not using the intercom system to converse with the nurses' station non-stop
• IV meds ... A few hours without IV MEDS. Apple auto correct behaves differently than the one on my phone.
• Sorry for the late updates ... need to finish off for yesterday
• Nurse wouldn't discharge (probably Dr's orders too) until Rory could get up and walk around. My assignment: take her for walks up and down the hallway
• Since we were staying past lunch she went ahead and ordered room service: Mac & cheese with fried zucchini.
• She proceeded to stir the cheezy noodles and veggies together ... GROSS!
• Went for a walk to the next wing and back. Glad she's feeling better.
• By 1:30 Rory was telling her nurse that she was ready to go home. They tried to track down the doctor who could give the order, but apparently was in surgery
• More than an hour later, still looking for that doctor. Must be a LONG case down in surgery.
• Eventually her surgeon stopped by. He happened to talk to Rory's personal nurse downstairs. She assumed he knew Rory was still in the hospital, he assumed she was at home. Eventually he figured out she was still here and came up to check on her.
• Said everything was fine for her to leave.
• Should have pathology back by Monday next week ... that will be the definitive answer on the presence or not of "microscopic disease"
• Around 3:30 when we finally left the hospital
• Stopped at the pharmacy to retrieve her prescriptions. One was changed (thanks to an over-zealous pharmacist) and they filled it there instead of giving it back to me per the agreement. Seemed a couple of over-reaches on his part today, but at least it got filled.
• Dropped off the other script in Monmouth
•  Home before 5:00; retrieve the Beast, check the mail, pick up prescriptions, put flowers in water, start science experiment with Caiden, tuck in Rory, Ceana to start cookies, prep for the concert.
• Concert went great!
• More updates from Rory when she's up and around ... I suspect sometime later today or tomorrow she'll get started on filling everything between these Twitter-like updates. :+)