First day home, and LInes from Daniel's Den

Today was Dan's first full day home from the hospital. He enjoyed sleeping in a more comfortable bed with me, his wife (giggle). He really enjoyed getting to eat whatever he wanted, including tacos and bean burrito from Taco Bell for lunch. He tried to start getting on a schedule, one he'll need to follow the rest of his life. There are a few extra chores we need to do for the first few months or so. It was a non-stop day of taking about 15 pills at 8am and 8pm, meals, and a lot of effort just getting to the bathroom with his walker, sometimes it took both Dan's dad and me to get him up from the chair to his walker. We also had lots of phone calls, a rental wheelchair delivered and I had to learn how to get Dan into the chair and then how to fold it up and hoist it into the back of the van. We should only need the chair for going to church, the mall, etc.; it doesn't fit in the house doorways and Mayo has a "garage" of wheelchairs plus volunteers who greet you when you drive up with a wheelchair and a smile. All in all, we survived the first day, with a lot of worrying and nagging on my part, and Dan patting me on the back saying "relax".

Check out Dan's new post on his blog www.linesfromdanielsden.blogspot.com.

Tomorrow we go back to Mayo for a full day of labs, visits with the post-transplant coordinator and doctors, OT and PT. We'll be there from 7:05am thru 2pm, we have short breaks and a lunch break and the cafeteria there is great.

Stay tuned,
Debbie and Dan