Today is Father's Day. Sydney is definitely more awake than yesterday. Brian and Jack come this morning and bring the gifts we got for Brian before we came to the hospital.
Casey, Kenny and Leah come for a visit in the late morning. While they are here our neighbors Jeff, Katrin and Jackson come for a visit as well. Sydney is awake most of the time and talking a bit.
After the neighbors leave she asks to get up and walk. This is the first time she has asked to get out of bed. The nurse comes in to help and Syd walks out in to the hall and comes back in to the room. Jack, Kenny and Leah are all following behind her like little ducklings. This is the farthest she has walked at this point. Casey leaves and takes Jack with them so he can hang out with Kenny for a while.
Later in the day they stop the continuous morphine drip and give her oral medicine every four hours. She needs to take an anti-nausea medication as well because the meds make her sick. She can't take a pill so she must take the liquid which tastes pretty horrible and there is a lot of it. They remove the Foley and eventually the the bag with intravenous fluids. Now she no longer has anything connected to her. She gets up and goes to the bathroom when she needs to. This means she is moving around more and getting up and down which is a good thing. She sits in the chair for five minutes or so. Kim, Maddie and Kyle come by for a visit. In the afternoon she wants to get out so we put on a pair of her own pajamas and Brian, Jack and I take her outside in a wheelchair. She and I feel fresh air for the first time in several days and it feels great.
She eats a little more today but not much. A couple bites of a McFlurry from McDonalds, a few bites of pasta with butter and the usual other things. At night she eats one chicken nugget and a few fries. She tries to go to sleep but can't really get comfortable. Her stomach has cramps and the nurse says this is normal. The stomach is the last to wake up so it can hurt a bit. She says the more Syd gets up and moves around the better she will start to feel. She can't sleep so she and I go out in the hall for a walk. I push her in the wheelchair and we cover the entire floor. This seems to calm her and wear her out a bit so when she gets back in bed she is able to go to sleep quite easily. There is talk that we may go home tomorrow!
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