... this will be brief, directionless, and will leave you feeling unfulfilled*
Today has been quite good, even though I didn't have time to look at more taps. They've finally taken out the naso-gastric tube and she's coping ok. Her intake is improving, although we're getting conflicting advice about her permitted diet. The info from the dietician suggests a period of quite strict restrictions (low fat, low fibre, limited range of vegetables), whereas the surgical team seem quite relaxed about her eating anything she wants. We're erring on the side of caution but it would be nice if we didn't have to spend a month feeding her nothing but rice, potatoes, skinless chicken, and soft carrots.
She managed a couple of visitors and even tolerated the children for a while. I was only working a half day and so was able to pick the fuzzy-haired one from school (in a few weeks this will be my new normal). I brought her to mummy and left her here while I went to get the noisy one from daycare. I'm told that while I was away she took great delight in caring for mum (pushing the IV pole as she went to the toilet etc). The presence of both kids has taken it out of her, especially physically. There may have been a bit too much leaning on mummy's tummy and making her shuffle around. Having said that, I just watched her walk to the toilet and she didn't need to lean on the wall and had minimal swaying.
At the late ward round they gave a tentative time-line: on Fri she'll have the fluoroscopy that will tell them if there are any leaks from the anastamosis (the join bit). If that's healing well enough, they would look to do the stoma reversal early next week to free her of the bag. This would give her her theoretical final plumbing layout, but would also be the start of the hard bit as her digestive system finally has to cope without the colon.
I read on the BBC website that only 3% of Indians pay income tax. Weird, huh?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22772391
The massive stack of books that she brought remains untouched. She doesn't think she'd even have the energy to watch TV, so it's just as well we're not spending $8 a day on TV access cards. We're using her cellphone as a modem for the computer, but if she didn't feel like paying or having security she could hook into the signal from the motels across the road. For almost the whole day she
* I told you so
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