. . . most of it good! Cindy had a good day yesterday. The nurses got her up in a chair a couple of times and her pain was pretty well controlled. Overnight she slept really well (which means I did too - the couch in her room isn't the worst place I've ever slept, but it sure isn't the Four Seasons !)
Today she's going to be transferred out of the ICU area of the oncology floor to the regular surgical oncology unit. The tube that was draining her stomach has been removed, and so have most of the monitoring devices, so she'll feel a lot less tethered to the bed. She was able to start a clear liquid diet today. Her stomach incision looks good and her temp is normal. She was getting a little loopy from the pain meds, so the dose has been decreased so she can feel a little more with it and hopefully continue to keep moving around. I've heard that the nurses on the unit she's moving to can be like drill sergeants, but the sooner she gets up and walks around the better.
Really the only thing that's not going great right now is her kidney function. After getting a little better the last couple of days its gotten a little worse again. She's still peeing - which is good - but some of the lab tests are still abnormal. She's going to have a renal ultrasound this afternoon to see if that can give us any answers.
Overall, though, things are going really well. We're still waiting for the pathology reports from the samples taken during surgery. Those will be used to more accurately stage her cancer and guide the chemo treatments that will start in the next couple of weeks.
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