Day 62. 

It's official; we're finally breakin' out of the Hospital today woo hoo!  It feels like an eternity but in real time it was not even a week.  [Here comes one of the longest run-on sentences you'll ever not want to read...]  Between the procedures, the power outage, the 'flight for life' helicopters seemingly swooping into our room at all hours, the shock and fear of stumbling into the hallway to find multiple rooms taped and sealed in heavy plastics (like ET or Dexter - I jumped to the obvious 'contagion' conclusion only to discover it is due to water leaking through the ceilings), Faye's oxygen monitor alarm beeping at all hours (alarming until you realize it is because they are continually and gradually reducing oxygen flow to encourage Faye to breathe on her own) and  -  most of all   -  the stress of why we're in the Hospital in the first place...  I'm simply a wreck.  I don't know how Faye holds up so well but I do know we both have the mightiest desire to be home.

Faye's scan on Monday was not as encouraging as her clinical results.  The Doctors were not discouraged at all, but I misunderstood their comments esp about consulting a surgeon and briefly went into a bit of a tailspin. Faye continues to improve though, and today the scans finally show it!  I can't come close to expressing the relief I feel although we are cautioned that we are not entirely in the clear yet.

Faye will continue high doses of steroids and will have more scans on Friday; more milestones to reach before we consider restarting radiation. Thank you to everyone for all of the kind thoughts, messages and prayers they mean so much!  ~Lolly