6th floor, here she comes...

mom made it out of the icu this afternoon. they gave her two units of blood yesterday, and it pulled up her hemoglobin & blood pressure. her fever is down to just about nothing, and she's got a lot more energy. granted, she's still got a 14 inch gash in her belly and so "a lot more energy" still doesn't add up to doing much. but she's making definite progress, and that's a very good thing. tomorrow they're going to try getting her up & walking around a bit. the getting up & down is the hardest part, but it'll get better each time she does it.
 
can you imagine carrying around ten pounds of fluid in your abdomen? ten pounds.