What’s missing from this picture?
The IV Pole!!
They decreased Benjamin’s TPN from running 24 hours to 18 hours. The goal is to get it down to 12 hours before he goes home. He will probably have to go home on TPN for a short time, until his body starts to maintain weight through oral diet.
So he enjoyed some time of freedom where he could get up and walk around without pushing a pole. There are still some concerns with the blood clots, the procedure to take care of those got put off until tomorrow. He still has 4 abdominal drains but the output from them has decreased substantially. Hopefully they might remove one or two tomorrow. Today they also changed him to oral meds for all of his rejection medicine. They want to see that he can absorb the medicine orally, this is also in preparation for when he is home. He continues to tolerate a soft diet and he’s in good spirits.
It was a good day!
Our surprise from housekeeping today... a butterfly.
They really do a good job trying to make your stay better.
This is how mom is entertaining herself for a good part of the day.
Game after game of Solitaire. :)
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