Fifteen Days after Surgery, 3pm

Hey you guys,

Anne is doing real well again today, but as you might expect, when she feels well she raises heck, so right now she is snoring away after a morning full of having too much fun. She's usually a very light sleeper, but right now she is sleeping soundly and noises aren't waking her up. She must've gotten overtired from talking too much this am..

Today regarding her eating/drinking, she has graduated from small amounts of water to unlimited amounts of clear liquids.

Since Anne had some diarrhea last night her room now is under quarantine. The nurses have to gown up, and I'm not allowed to use the kitchen at this time. You might remember this happening when she was in the Gibson wing in January. You don't want to have diarrhea in this hospital and be using an abundance of antibiotics. If so, they immediately take precautions against the infection known as C.diff. If Anne is here for three more days, they'll test her each day for C.diff until there are 3 negative tests. She isn't allowed to have a roomate till then either, so maybe it has it's benefits. They have told Anne that the tests alone are not cause for keeping her in the hospital longer than she needs to be here. If you remember back in January, Anne had gone thru this regiment of testing and there was no infection.

An abundance of antibiotics can actually be the cause of c.diff because that will not only kill off the bad germs but it kills off the good germs too.

So we wait for the doctors orders to come in this evening to see where Anne stands. Her Physical Therapist person here said she is ok to go home, but the doctors have the final say.