FREEDOM!!!!

After spending a good portion of the day waiting, Lonye was finally discharged at about 3pm today.  And not a moment too soon! 

We had another rough night, in that, the two remaining chest tubes were removed yesterday.  The team did not tell us that the wounds could (and probably would) continue to drain for 24+ hours.  So, Lonye woke up in the middle of the night to find his bed soaking wet.  He was more than a little freaked out!!  To make matters worse, he almost had to beg the nurse to change linens, bring him new pajamas, etc......  can you imagine, yuck.  I could go into more graphic detail, but I won't.  Trust me, it was pretty bad, not painful, just disgusting.

When we got up this morning, Lonye immediately began asking "what will it take to get me out of here today?".  We were told he needed and x-ray, and a pulmonary function test, meet with the home infusion nurse (for the iv meds he will do at home for a while) and meet with the respiratory therapist.  In our world, this should be able to be completed in a few hours.  In the hospital world, it takes 9 hours...... and that's with a LOT of pushing, pleading and begging.  That's right, we got up at 6am, we left after 3pm.

Before we left the hospital we told the team that it's almost time for Lonye's pain meds & we're out.....  we went straight to the pharmacy to get the presciption filled.  Wouldn't you know it, our insurance would not authorize the pain meds.  After about an hour we finally got it resolved.  But, of course not before he was in intense pain.  It has been several hours now, so he's feeling better.

We are settled in our temporary housing here on Mercer Island.  It's awesome!  It's like a home away from home.  I know I've said it before, but we are blessed to have so many good friends!  Mary Hafner & Ronna Chandler came up today!  They even got a mini diabetes training session, probably more than they will ever want to know.  Seriously though, it has been so nice to have friends come up to visit.