An Interesting Day

It has been a long day. Julia slept about 2 hours last night and was in a lot of pain. The decisions that were made this morning seem to be effective. It took a little while for the morphine to kick in. The anesthesiologists apologized for the lack of pain care she received the last 24 hours. They should have been called last night and weren't. The nurse she's had all day has been phenomenal- a 20 year nurse and on top of everything- making things happen. (Maureen we love you.) Once her first dose of morphine and toradol were in she was actually singing and dancing with her legs in the bed. It was really sweet. Sadly this only lasts a short time and then she was combative and miserable again. She latched herself onto me around 6am and has been attached to my shirt until 5pm. I think it's all hitting her and the lack of sleep and no food since Thursday makes for an ornery JuJu. She had some good cuddle time with Daddy when Mommy finally got to take a shower, eat something, and go up to the playground with Carter.
The surgeon was very optimistic and proactive this morning. He ordered the removal of her foley catheter, remaining IV, epidural, pulse ox monitor, and NG tube and said she could drink. This made for an interesting, but optimistic day. We are happy to be finally getting her adequate pain relief and thrilled to be unhooking her from so many things. She hasn't minded procedures up until today, but when they ripped off the epidural while she was asleep she lost it and has fought us on the removal process all day, but we have trudged through. It was worth it in the end to have her down to just a portacath by the end of the day :) !!! Yippee!
Carter came to visit and spent the whole day with us, Daddy, Mimi, and Grandpa. Thank you to all the sweet people who dropped by today- the Rendalls, Donna, Lisa, Annmarie, and Shana- your gifts were so sweet and you love and prayers are just what we needed.

Our biggest prayer right now is that she can sleep tonight. She has only had 5 hours in the past 24 hours and it is not cutting it. She will be getting Benadryl with her morphine at 9pm and we are praying that deep sleep comes quickly and easily.