3 days after surgery

Lonye has made great progress the last few days!  He did four laps around the ICU yesterday.  As you can see by some of the photos, it's quite an event to get him up and about.  That's mostly because of all the tubes, hoses, etc.

The docs have signed orders to remove some of the IV lines and two out of the four chest tubes. 

The chest tubes are to drain fluids away from the lungs.  They are extremely painful.  He's very happy to have some of them taken out.  

We will moving to the "floor" today.  That means out of ICU!  It's really hard for him to get any rest because of all the monitoring devices, bells, beeps, etc.  

One of the lung transplant coordinators came in yesterday.  She said that the average hospital stay is between 7-14 days.  Lonye will be out of here by day 7 or 8 if he continues to improve at the same rate.

He's eating well, more than I've seen him eat in ages.  That's very encouraging.  

I will write more later, when we have him moved to a different room......