Bobbie is now in her room where she will likely be for the next 7-10 days. She is in room [edited for internet publication]. She is currently in some pretty significant pain, but they did some pretty significant stuff to her in terms of incision and surgery, so it is to be expected. She has a morphine trigger that she can hit every 10 minutes and they are dosing her with some additional morphine, but I don't know how long that will be available to her. Have to wait and see. She's rating her current pain at a 10+ when asked by the nurses, so I really hope that comes down. It sucks to watch a loved one suffer.
As mentioned before, the surgery that they performed today removed a portion of intestine including two large tumors that are thought to be the cause of both her abdominal pain and bleeding over the past 6 weeks. Multiple smaller tumors remain, but they will be addressed by a medical treatment (chemotherapy or something of the like) sometime after her brain tumor procedure which will likely be performed sometime near the end of next week (more details on that to follow as we get them).
I will be by her side through the night and will probably send out the next update sometime tomorrow. They say they will be getting her up and moving tomorrow, I think mostly as an effort to get her body moving on the healing front.
She is sleeping at the moment and I'm hoping she is able to sleep off at least most of the first night worth of pain.
Until next time...
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