ICU

Misty had a real scare last Wednesday. She was supposed to have her laporoscopy (where they make a few incisions into her abdomen and look around using a camera), but something didn't go quite right with the anesthesia. After getting knocked out, her trachea collapsed and she couldn't breathe for about a minute, and some fluid from her stomach came up and went into her lungs.

Wednesday night was a really bad night for Misty. Early Thursday morning I took off from Louisiana, where I have been working, and drove back to the hospital to see her. Thursday was rough, but she slowly, steadily progressed throughout the day. For the past several days Misty has been in the ICU getting her lungs back in usable condition. She has gone from a breathing tube into her lungs (which she removed herself) to a CPAP machine (a machine with a mask that forces air into her mouth and nose), to an oxygen mask, to just a tube running under her nose. It's expected that she'll be out of the ICU today, and back into a regular hospital room.

As for the laporoscopic surgery, it looks like they're going to put that off for a little while and just get started on the chemotherapy. Chemo is expected to start within the next few days.