Over the Hump?

Today was hard. Yesterday's surgery was more complicated than we had imagined and Susannah is not recovering as quickly as she did after the first surgery in October. She has trouble sleeping because of pain, we assume, and she is on a lot of meds and generally not comfortable. Hospital noises and midnight blood pressure checks don't help either. Mom and dad are exhausted.

Nonetheless we feel like she is slowly feeling better and she has given us smiles and even a few laughs here and there. We are hoping that she gets some rest tonight and gets over the hard part. There is a chance that we will be discharged tomorrow, but of course you never know...

Thanks for all your messages and as soon as we can all get more than a couple hours sleep we'll fill you in with more details.