Well, Mom is finally home... The abdominal drain is still in place, she's very tired and weak but hopefully around her home surroundings she'll better relax and heal. The doctors still have her on a liquid diet for now and Kaiser should be calling tomorrow with her appointment with the Surgeon, who she's supposed to see in a week. There should be a Home Nurse coming in as well... We're hoping over the next few days she'll establish her household routine.
While we're rejoicing the fact that Mom's home at last, we all have to remember at this point she is trading hospital convalescence with home convalescence... a lateral trade really. Mom is in NO WAY recovered! This is 'wait and see' time while her body continues the process of clearing the smaller infection sites and containment of the larger site. Surgical repair is still a very real probability once containment has occurred and we don't even want to think at this point what will be involved then!
As for now, it remains 'a day at a time', she's making S-L-O-W progress but progress none the less and for that we are grateful and celebrate!!
We once again Thank You for your continued thoughts, your prayers and we will stay in touch!!
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