Fun, fun and more fun

Here we are, installed in one of the rooms in the new rooms at the Continent Ostomy Center at Palms of Pasadena Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida. Weather conditions are sunny and warm... which means the view from the hospital room is lovely! Phone is (727)381-1000, room 261.

Traveling yesterday went fairly smoothly; all the flights got in early and departed on time. And, praise God, I was not too devastated to leave Parker, altho I was missing him before we had finished walking to our gate! Unfortunately, we weren't quite to prompt to the hotel; our shuttle driver couldn't find our hotel (a flaw in the GPS being that it can't find roads whose names were just changed) -- Jason pointed out that it took longer to drive 15 miles to our hotel than it did to fly from Atlanta to Tampa!! But the hotel was clean and quiet, so the test prep went well, and we both actually managed to get some sleep.

Today has been long - full of tests and tubes and pokes and prods and, most recently, some nausea. But now we're just waiting until tomorrow and surgery. The pouch was scoped this morning; thankfully, it looked great, but that also means we still aren't sure what the problem is. The radiologist is still working on my scans, but we were encouraged by the doctor who did the scope. Since he couldn't find anything, that narrows down the problem quite a bit and means the pouch will not need to be replaced! YAY!

Jason, dear man, is bored and has been since he got done unpacking before lunch! But I'm much calmer just because he's here (and spending this much uninterrupted time together has reminded me how goofy he is). Tomorrow will be a guy movie day while he waits for the surgery to end and then for me to wake up; but maybe he'll have some company since one of the techs here couldn't stop watching the Jackie Chan movie we had on whenever he came in!

I've seen some familiar faces today, including one nurse who really went above and beyond for me before. It's good to be in familiar hands, and I love that all they do here is pouch stuff!

Parker doing well; he got to milk a cow today. Sounds like more fun than we had. I'm thankful he's old enough to understand this a little better! Probably won't be up to posting tomorrow, but Jason is happy to answer any inquires -- we're praying for good news to report on Saturday!