Unplugged

As each hospital day has passed, the tendency has been for one day to be good (with encouraging news & developments), followed by a bad day (where pain or another complication feels like a setback). Today is mostly a good day. This morning my 'happy' morphine button was finally taken down and my feeding tube disconnected, meaning that i have been tube-free for the first time since the operation!! (13days). That part has been great!I have noticed, however, a gathering shortness of breath this afternoon and a chest xray revealed more fluid gathering on my lungs which will need to be tapped as it was on Sunday. (it will be done tomorrow morning, meaning an uncomfortable night for me). I look forward to an end of these twists and turns. The chest infection I developed (mentioned in earlier entry) has been confirmed as Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. I am on powerful antibiotics to sort this out. We're getting there, but it sure is taking a long time!!