I am going to run out of adjectives to describe how well my BenBen is doing. Chris is here for our shift change. My dad is here to be Chris’ backup and my mom and I are ready to depart for some sleep.
Ben had his central line removed and when he moved down to his new regular room, he was taken off all constant monitoring. Ben managed to remove the IV out of his foot during the night. So we are slowly getting rid of all of our “strings” (that is what Ben calls them). There is great hope that we will remove his chest tubes tomorrow, but then again maybe not. We will just have to see.
We go for an xray tomorrow morning and he has to get up and walk more in the morning. He did walk to the bathroom and back to his bed. He truly is a hard workin’ dude. He is determined to go home soon.
Right now he is figuring out the pleasures of a bed with remote controls. Up. Down. Up. Down. Almost folded the bed in half with him squished in the middle. That is my BenBen.
More great nurses have greeted us on this new floor. We are in room 1517. Chris tells me that this was the year of the reformation, so this is a GOOD room with EXCELLENT Lutheran vibes.
I know that tomorrow will be another awesome day. God is good. He has given me back my boy in great shape. We have a few more hurdles to jump, but we will get there with God by our side.