Post Opt Night 9

Last night was another quite restful night for Lacey..and me. Her stomach began moving late yesterday evening and she was able to move some liquids through her system. She is having some periods of very intense pain in her belly at times depending on when her intestines are processing food and liquids. The doctors say this will get better. She had a bad episode around 3am and finally got settled back in about 4am. We both were able to sleep til around 830am and she was feeling better this morning. The doctors came in and were impressed with her progress and glad that her stomack has "woke up." They changed her diet today to a regular diet and will begin changing her pain meds over to oral medications rather than IV meds. They want to see how well she does and how well her stomach and intestines digest and process the foods she eats. The doctors exact words were "if you do good with regular diet and oral meds, your discharge will be very soon." Now I can't explain what "very soon" means so we will continue to be patient but we are hopeful that in another 2-3 days we'll at least be back at the hotel with our daughter and Lacey's mother, hopefully to gain a few days of rest and recooperation. This road has been hard, but God is delivering us, just as He has delivered His people so many times since the Exodus. We are thankful, and even though Lacey is having some intense periods of pain with the intestinal digestion process, she is overall better and continues to improve. The doctors said this morning that she will most likely not need TPN after discharge which is a true blessing.

Laceys blood sugars have jumped around a bit since her intake of liquids has increased but the endocrinologist says that her islet cells are beginning to work but that it will just take some time for them to be in full operation. She gets a small shot of Lantus, a long acting insulin in the morning, and she is only needing like 1 or 2 units of insulin with meals. This is minimal and is definitely a great trade off for that pancreatitis she was dealing with. We continue to thank God and He continues to hold us up. I can't testify enough of what He's done for us.



Here is a picture of Lacey eating her first hash browns in 12 years. Enjoy. I nearly cried just watching her enjoy such a basic meal! We just don't appreciate the small things in life like we should.