Post-op Progress Report #5

12:00 noon, August 17, 2008

When a woman looks as healthy and sounds as healthy as Carolyn does right now, you wonder what she's doing in a hospital. But then you realize that she has at least six tubes going into and out of her body, that she has a huge gash in her abdomen, and that she is trying to suppress or at least lower the volume of her moans. If she were a whiner, she would make sure we heard about all of her aches and pains but she just doesn't do that. At least she can't complain about the hospital cooking as she is not yet eating anything by mouth. In fact, she's only allowed one small cup of ice chips per nursing shift.

She does enjoy visitors as long as you don't stay long. Her phone number is 916-973-5675. She is still in room 4019, bed C.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.