Welcome Home

Hi!

I am officially writing this blog from home! You have no idea what it was like for me (don't worry, eventually I will catch you all up) to come home. It is horrible being in the hospital..... for me anyways! Yes, they are checking up on you constantly and you have 24 hour care whatever you need, and doctors are every where if anything goes wrong! But do you know what that translates too?

It means noisy ICU people, nurses, machines galore, lights that never turn off, a nurse waking you up every hour to check your vitals, a nurse that checks for a pulse in your newly constructed tongue with a little ultra sound machine, a nurse every morning drawing blood from the same hand that no longer has any veins left to poke at! It means, no sleep basically. Eventually I convinced myself I was suffocating every time I fell asleep so the most sleep I got was 1-2 hours a night. SO not a good thing. It makes for a really stressed out emotional Ivana.

So the positive; I'm HOME! I'm sleeping in my own bed, I'm actually SLEEPING, there's no noise, I can pretty much sleep on my right side again (just have to be careful with how I move my neck), and it's for longer than an hour or two. It's practically all night. I'm not on any pain medicine which is stellar...I grew quite fond of Percocet while in the hospital. It made it possible to sleep those 1-2 hours that I actually got.

I do a flight of stairs about twice a day, sleep, eat (through my feeding tube - nothing orally), catch up on recorded tv shows, and wait for the next step. Since I have 1 good hand that is free now (no more iv or wire hookups to monitors) to type, and pretty good I might add, I will start catching you all up on what has transpired the last 2 weeks. Stay tuned.