Recovery Day 3

This is an exciting day.  After surgery on Thursday and 2 full days of recovery, Dad has been given permission to begin fluid by mouth.  He has had 2 sips of chicken broth (hooray!) and will pause to see if his gut can handle it.

On his surgery, Dad has an upside down 'v' just below his sternum about 10" total length with about 20 staples keeping it shut as well as two drains, one on each side which indicate how he is doing on the inside.  On the inside, his intestine was separated from his stomach and then reattached.  Also, a new line, using his intestine, was run between his pancreas liver. Want more info?????  Google Whipple procedure.

An anestheologist (Reed) visited with us this morning.  According to the information he has received, Dad is healing "as a 30 year old man."  The entire staff is extremely pleased with his progress.  When he returned some time later, with even more forward progress, he threw his fist up in the air and showed his excitement.  Of course, the young doctors can do that sort of thing.  Just another sign of our faithful God (and those exceptional genes).

This guy's St Bernard was drooling on the table.

Us caregivers have it pretty rough here. Yesterday Melody and I walked to a shopping district yesterday and had lunch at an open air cafe/creamery.  Yes, you do that here in August.