When I came downstairs in the morning he looked better...with the tubes and wires removed it made a big difference. We were able to see Dr. Bolling and his touring detail again. As he walked into the room Sam was finishing some cereal and actually had one of his legs crossed on his knee...Dr Bolling said "GO HOME....if you can sit like this you can do this at home" :) Sam asked him if he should use a treadmill or what he should do when its cold outside to walk....Dr. Bolling's response "Wear a coat". HA!
Next the physical therapist came in to go over getting in and out of bed with Sam and I .... this was exhausting for both of us. It kinda turned into Clue at the end...Sam has to be sitting on a certain angle, on my side of the bed (since his neck is still sore from the neck tube area), I need to swing his legs up as he goes down on his shoulder and then we can position him better... like I said it was like clue or it didn't work. So after that Sam took his medications and took a nice nap.
Bonnie & I took turns going to pack up our rooms, load our cars and check out of our home away from home - The Med Inn. Discharge services called Sam's room to get some information and set-up a visiting nurse who will draw blood for the coumadin (he only has to be on this 4 weeks), check his incision and drain tube location. We also will have a physical therapist visiting the house to assess how he can really get in and out of our bed comfortably, if he can do our basement steps etc.
I went downstairs to get 6 prescriptions filled only to find out that they didn't send all of them downstairs so that required a separate trip to CVS once we got home. We got another tree branch of paperwork and instructions to go home with. I got Sam washed up and dressed. There was so much going on during this whole process...It was about 3pm when we were finally wheeling him downstairs to head home.
Bonnie followed close behind us on the way home since I was driving an unusual slow speed....to the point a semi truck honked at me and passed me in the right lane. Needless to say I will think twice about honking at someone driving slow...Sam was clenching his heart pillow since he could feel every bump in the road, was nauseated from both the pain meds and being in the car. The hour drive felt like forever for us since I was driving so slow and so worried about pot holes etc. We got home around 4:30p greeted by Sam's dad Fred. He had come to open up the house for us and turn the heat up.
It felt really weird for Sam to be home... he walked around looking at everything and just trying to get comfortable. I slept on the couch so I could watch my patient...I didn't want him to get up thinking he was ok and doing something. We moved to bed around 2am and he slept in our bed for the first time for 3 hours!!! Despite the up and down he got rest and I didn't bug him with any vitals ;)
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