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We were discharged Wednesday afternoon!  Fastest ever :).  We broke our long drive up in two days. We stayed with family Wednesday and made our trip back home Thursday morning. 4hours in the car and still happy. Jess is amazing!

A dressing change was done when we got home and her incision looks great. We have to keep a dressing on it because she is constantly rubbing it! She doesn't seem like she is in pain. It's more like its itchy and bugging her.

Jess will be back to regular routine on Monday. She will be sooooooo excited to see her friends :)

Getting better :)

The night went well  and Jess was able to go pee by herself without catherdization. I think she heard us talking what we had to do and didn't want any part of that!!!  Now that the anestetic is wearing off Jess was able to keep water down this morning. We also gave her some food which helped made things move along.  Her bowls are working great and had MANY "code browns".

Ortho was by this morning and said that if she tolerates her feed, we will be discharged. Right now her IV is getting taken out. Hopefully my next blog is about our trip home ;)

Text Book

We should have seen this coming.!

All was going great. We were slowly giving Jess 10cc's of water every 10 minutes. She tolerated that great so they decided to try to introduce her food. Not good....pukapolooza!  Happens every time!

The game plan now is to stop feeding her.  Give her gravel to help with the nausea.  She is still receiving her fluids through IV. We are going to keep her comfortable and try food in the morning.  We are also concerned because she has not gone pee. They also did a bladder scan and she is boarder line for catherdization.  If she doesn't go on her own, we will have to put a catheter in to release the pressure.

They also gave her pain meds twice since surgery. Hopefully the night goes well :)

Surgery Day

We were wide awake around 2am this morning because the hotel walls are so thin.  We could hear the flags blowing in the wind like we were standing right beside  them!!!

It was an early morning. We registered at 645am and talked to Dr Ouellette prior to the surgery. Jess went into surgery around 8am and we got to see her in recovery around 10 am. Jessica had an intolerance to morphine which caused a longer stay in the hospital last time we used it. They then gave her Nunain which worked amazing on her. Since Nubain is no longer made in canada, they have given her hydromorphine. So far no reaction to this :)

We will be trying to slowly give her water. Fingers crossed she can keep this down. Dr ouellette has also ordered X-rays on her back this afternoon.

Montreal Bound

I feel we have done this drive over and over again and Steve could probably do it with his eyes closed....but we won't be trying that :).

This will be Jessica's fifth surgery on her back.  Things don't seem as nerve racking for us because we know the hospital routine now. We are heading to the  hospital tomorrow morning around 630 am to register for 645am. She probably won't actually go into surgery until 730-8am at which time we get to talk to Dr Ouellette prior to the surgery.

I will try to post as soon as I can :)

Evening Drive to Ottawa

Almost there!!!

Can't wait to hit the pillow because we have an early morning to fight Montreal traffic. 

Thursday brings pre-op appointments in preparation for surgery. Jessica 's date has now changed to Tuesday morning which now lets us spend some time with family ;)