Another Milestone Reached....

All I can say is, "WHAT A DAY"!

I arrived at the hospital early this morning to find out KO finally had a good nights sleep in her private quarters. After overdoing it a bit, she has been getting a lot of rest and it showed.

If progress was slow yesterday, today it was in overdrive! First up, out came the epidural. Time for good ol' IV pain meds. Next we said ba-bye to the catheter (sorry if thats TMI, but I gotta share the excitement). She was sipping on the water and taking little bites of Jell0. We were on a roll.....until Nurse Marta told us she had to get in the chair and later start walking.

KO was NOT happy about this but she pumped on the pain button and up she sat with her legs over the bed. After a few moments rest with some assistance from lovely nurse Marta she was officially in the chair. This was big! This was great! We were thrilled! But it was shortlived as we were told the next order of business was walking.

Ok now I have a problem on my hands. KO does not feel up to walking she tells me. She is having hot flashes, she is feeling nauseaus and lightheaded, she states that although she knows she has to walk she just doesn't think she can do it!! Oy vey I think to myself, what's a daughter in law to do??? All I can say is thank goodness for the IPHONE. It came to the rescue. With my handy application Pandora, I put on new age/spa music. I gave her a scalp massage We were breathing in through our nose and out through our mouth, we were thinking positive thoughts. In short we were in the zone and CHILLAXING!! Then the most amazing thing happened, Nurse Marta told us the time had come to make our move and KO got up and slowly, ever so slowly and started WALKING! She walked herself right out of the room and up and back down the hallway! I'm cheering, all the aides in the hallway are cheering as shouts of "you go girl!" were flying through the air! I was smiling, I was kvelling, I was thrilled to see what courage and determination look like! KO probably didn't hear/see any of this cause she was concentrating so hard on putting one foot in front of the other.

It was a joyous day! The little things mean a lot. I can't wait to see what tommorrow brings.

Until next time,

xoxoxoxo
Stephanie