Chaz, Filling in for Dazzle:

Dazzle was in the ICU over night then moved back to her room before 10am today. (thanks for the call Adigurl!) She had a bit of a restless night, with the pain and discomfort. Also the pain medication made her drowsy, but when she dropped off her respiration slowed so that her oxygen levels dropped and the nurses had to keep telling her to take deep breaths. During the day, back in her room, she spent most of the day in bed, apart from about two hours in the later part of the afternoon, when she managed to get out of bed (mostly under her own steam) and sit in the chair for a bit. I think that was mostly to try to get her moving a bit and to help her circulation. She tried her lung exercises again (I can never remember what its called… not spirograph… that’s a drawing toy!), to draw a comparison with how she had performed before the operation and anaesthetic. Although the first time she tried, it was quite low, there was an improvement by the time she tried it again later in the day. Mr P saw her again in the early evening and seemed to be pleased with her progress, he sees no reason why she isn’t on course to be discharged and on her way home by the weekend. He also assured her that today is definitely the worst day, and everything starts getting better soon… news that she was glad to hear. I left her this evening after she had been given some more pain medication, and hopefully she’ll manage to get some sleep tonight and feel a lot better tomorrow.