Susan's Pendulum

So far, the fever has been easily manageable. One dose of tylenol or motrin seems to prevent fever for a good 12 hours or more. We gave Mag...

Maggie's fever has been down since midnight; we haven't even given her meds for it since early evening yesterday. I got up three ti...

One night shortly before surgery, we watched Take the Lead , a movie about Pierre Dulaine who teaches ballroom dance in the New York City p...

Should I keep calling these "hospital updates" if we're home now??? The roads coming home weren't very nice. In most plac...

We decided that it would be wise to go check out of Ronald McDonald House. Maggie's doing well. We've given about a dozen doctors ...

Oh, darn it. Now Maggie's got a fever. I figured they'd let her go, even with the one part of the left lung not being A-OK, becaus...

Sooooo, the last one wasn't the last one after. Dr Samyn came in after the echo. Given Maggie's mobility (she wheeled her own whee...

We had a good and restful night. Maggie and I are on our way back from cardiology to the room. We're out tooling around the hospital w...

Besides just being more comfortable, Maggie is also breathing much better with the chest tubes removed. Yesterday and today she seems hypern...

Couldn't find a computer available at the hosptial, church, or RMH prior to Bible class. So here's the late-morning scoop. Last nig...

For some reason, when we were hanging out at the hospital Monday for pre-op, I couldn't help but ponder why this whole world exists. Al...

We're still in ICU. When our cardiologist came by at 2:30, he asked the nurses if there were something about Maggie keeping us there, o...

Flipping through my "Day by Day We Magnify Thee" Monday night, I found a scribbled-out quote from a novel I read on vacation a few...

Bad planning on my part. I should've thrown the load of clothes into the wash FIRST, and then hit the blog. But noooo, I am a blog-add...

This is going stunningly well and fast! Maggie was up and alert, pretty much from 3 until just a few minutes ago. Doctors are extremely ple...

The night has gone pretty well. They now allow a parent to sleep/doze in ICU. For Mag's last surgery, that was strictly prohibited. S...

Laura, Mom, Kathy, and a few others: Cell phones aren't allowed in ICU. If you need to get a hold of us, we're in PICU 24. The pho...

Check it out -- a different title!! :-) Rachel, Matt, Nathan, and Katie are with Magser right now. There're only supposed to be four at...

Surgeon just came in to meet with us. He's done. He said everything went very well except for the trouble getting through the sternum,...

They're closing. The surgeon will come meet with us in about a half-hour. When the rest of the crew is done with the dressings and get...