Status

I spoke with Dana for a bit this morning before she was interrupted.  She's fine but apparently had a very low blood pressure event last night.  She sometimes has that anyway and pain meds will tend to lower BP.  So no idea what today will bring.  I suspect they will still throw her out and I'll scoop her up early afternoon but they will want her BP to be under control first. 

I had something similar and my release was delayed a couple of hours AND they skipped my pain med when it was due.  That kind of lead down a path of being behind on pain control which is critical to the whole thing.  Keeping the pain down is what makes it OK to walk which gets things settled in and working right.  So it is critical to improvement.

Dana's doc said something to her (or it is what she heard) that he wasn't really big on just giving out hydrocodone.  Having been through four sessons of this (he's not been through any) I'm standing by to fight that.  The nurse had to reach out to him yesterday to get her pain meds.  He had not automatically put it in her chart.  

I'll see him today hopefully and we'll get things figured out.