The issue during the past several hours has been pain control. Mom's pain was managed this morning, but her blood pressure was dropping too low for the doctors to comfortably continue the same regimen. While they were adjusting, Mom's pain got way bad for a while. It then came down, but it would spike again. It was like that for a while. So far it's been managed for a good little while.

The surgeon even came in at one point. He asked why they hadn't made more of an effort to get Mom up. Hello! His big hurry is that laying in bed too long after this kind of major surgery without getting up isn't...good. The way to heal is to get up and out of bed. His words - walk, walk, walk. He had mom take off her incision bandage on her own. It took her a good 5 minutes because she had been in a bit of pain, but she did it. We got to see her incision for the first time, and according to them it looks good. It's pretty long - not 12 inches, but maybe 8...?? I'll measure later.

An ostomy nurse came in to just talk to us and said that Mom's output means she's progressed and ahead of the game. She also said that pain management for the first 3 days (but especially the first 2) after surgery can be really difficult. She encouraged Mom to constantly use her pump and to let someone know immediately if she wasn't getting relief. The past 40 minutes have been okay.

How to pray -
- Pain Management - We're still working on this, so pray that we find Mom's personal prescription for this quickly.
- Continued protection from infection
- Recovery
- Nausea - They've removed a tube from Mom's nose that was connected to her stomach. It drained stomach acid that kept her from vomiting. It's gone...

...and they want to get her up to a chair now...gotta go...