The good news is that she is now at home and spent the night in her bed for the first time in about two weeks last night getting a good night's rest. The cyberknife treatment yesterday took almost exactly 3 hours and they discharged her pretty much right afterward. They switched her to solid foods (regular diet) during the day Wednesday and she voluntarily gave up her morphine trigger on Thursday. She went the entirety of yesterday with no pain meds at all. This was mostly for the cyberknife procedure, but still pretty impressive. She took some before bed last night, but that was after a car ride home, a stair climb at the house to the 2nd floor and a shower without the handy stool that they have in the hospital shower.
She celebrated her return home with a Rosemary Chicken meal from Johnny Carino's and is currently contemplating when to head to VA to see Killian. I'm going to try to convince her to stay and recover in a peaceful, empty house for about a week before making the trek, but it will ultimately be up to her. I will take her up whenever she needs to go to appease her emotional health.
So that's pretty much it. She has a follow-up appointment with her surgical oncologist next Thursday and a follow-up MRI and appointment with the neurosurgeon in 4-6 weeks. After that comes discussions about where to go next with treatment. The war is certainly not over, but at least we are in reprieve for a short time.
Yet again, thank you all for your supportive words and actions throughout the course of this so far. I cannot adequately tell you how much it means to us both.
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