My little Eby, my gaurdian angel

After my surgery: Elvis has been so good with me since I got home. He doesn't leave my side. He sleeps right next to me, licking my face every now and then, I guess just to tell me it's okay, and that he loves me. When I get up to go to the bathroom, or down the hall to the computer, he stays right by my side, walking slow enough to not get in the way, but to make sure that I'm making it alright. He's so worried about me, he won't even go outside to use the bathroom. He has to be coxed or picked up by family members to get him to go. Even as I type, he's laying right beside my chair. My sweet little Eby, you may think that there is no way a dog could possibly help, but he does. I even think he may be speeding up recovery just by being there and making me smile.

Discharged

I could only sleep for a couple hours without waking in pain. The nurse would come check on me and get vitals. Around noon, they come in and tell me that it's time to be discharged. When they took my vital then, I was running a low fever, 99.3, and my heart rate was 50. Of course, that delayed my release time. I took some more pain pills and went back to sleep. Around 4:30 the nurse came back, checked vitals again, all normal, so she brought me discharge papers. I was wheeled out of the hospital at around 4:45. I was so releived to be going home, and to smoke a cigarette. I think I smoked the whole drive back, although it made me alittle dizzy and nauseous. I didn't have dinner when I got to my mom's house for recovery. I tryed to get comfortable on the couch but it was too small for my massive leg brace and decided it was time for bed. I went to sleep around 8pm after taking 2 more pain pills and slept until about 3:30am. When I woke, I used the bathroom (all by myself) and took more pain pills. I then went back to sleep and slept til about 10:30am. I got up then, felt good enough to eat alittle, so my dad made me some breakfast. Bacon, eggs, toast...mmmm... so much better than hospital food. The pain is subsiding alittle also. I still can't move my own leg, but at least it's not intollerable pain.