Today Bud is doing much better. He is able to eat regular meals now and is up roaming the halls. His energy levels are incredible and he looks like a new man. What a blessing to see such a dramatic change in him!
David, however, is still on a liquids only diet and has a hard time moving around due to his pain levels. He really misses his coffee! We also had a conflict with one of our nurses that caused David to have a pain setback.
David had a nurse whom I'll call "Joan" and she kept telling David to use breathing and visualization techniques to deal with his pain instead of giving him medication. She kept saying that David just had major surgery and he was going to have pain and he just needed to work through it. What a quack! She thought David should imagine being on the beach with Grace and his pain would just dissapate. Maybe it would if he was dunking Nurse Joan under the water... Anyway, when your pain level is a 10 it's a little hard to imagine it away. Crazy Joan actually told us a story of an 8-9 year old girl that she help reset a broken bone without any medication! Needless to say, we went to the head of the transplant center and had nurses swapped. Our new nurse whom I'll call "Angie" talked to David's surgeon and now David is on dilaudid instead of morphine and it is working much, much better. His pain level has decreased to about a 6 which David says he can tolerate. He has a high pain threshhold!
Anyway, now that Nurse Joan is off helping someone other than David things are going much, much better for us. Nurse Angie is very attentive to David and doesn't believe in unnecessary pain - a woman after my own heart! David is resting as much as he is able between blood pressure checks, temperature checks, etc., and his pain is somewhat tolerable. I plan to stay here at the hospital again tonight to help David as much as I am able.
Thank you again for keeping us in your prayers. I truly believe that the worst is finally behind us and better days are just over the horizon. God is watching over all us as David and Bud begin to heal and I have faith that we will all be going home soon.
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