Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Post op plan

I suppose I should write about mom's post op plan. She was told she will be in the hospital for a week. However they also thought she would spend a night in the ICU, which she didn't, so I wouldn't be surprised if she went home a day or two early. She does have a colostomy so education will need to be done on the care of that.
The doc had said it would be 2-3 months recovery but this morning said she looked better and the surgery went better than expected. So recovery could be more like 1 month now.
The plan is to do chemotherapy afterwards. I would think they would want to get her strength and weight up before beginning that again but I have not heard a date to begin yet. She will have a 3 week cycle. An infusion on day 1 with 2 weeks of oral chemo and then 1 week off. This will repeat for 6 months to a year.
Oh and she was already up out of bed, took a couple steps and to the chair this morning and looked really good doing that! Yay for progress! That's all I know for now. Oh and she did ask for no visitors until tomorrow so if you want to know where she is just ask!

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