Dec. 20

Doc said Chelsea could go home today.  The nurse just removed and changed her bandage.  Nurse also removed the drainage tubes. Yuck!  There were 2 tubes into her skin near the top of her incision, but the tubes (probably at least 1/4" thick) went the entire length of her incision...maybe 12" or more. Of course, she cried as the nurse removed them even though she tried to remove them a few inches at a time.  It really is amazing what the surgeons do.  I was glad they came out easily and didn't get hung up or caught on anything.  Luckily she had pain meds about an hour before they removed the tubes and she is back to sleep now.  I expect she won't go home until later today.

Visitors last night were cousin Amie and Oliver.  We laughed a lot as Brian read most of the things that Chelsea said in recovery that he so smartly typed into his phone!  Like "how do they get so much furniture in a submarine, you could live in there!"