Pre-Discharge Training

Tuesday's news is that Faina will be discharged on Wednesday.
1) She still has the ostomy bag over the fistula.
2) She gets her nutrition through a PICC line.
3) Her pain meds, fentanyl, are administered on a 72 hour time release patch.
4) She has an open wound that is still draining at the top of her original surgical incision.
Otherwise, everything is honkey dory.

It took a team of three nurses to give Faina and me lessons in home health care. Do you really want to ever hear that they are bringing in Nancy, the "Wound Specialist?" Kerry covered everything else. Lori oversaw the process. A home health care nurse will stop by, but we will pretty quickly be essentially on our own for these basics. We will be coming up to Hopkins every week to check in with Dr. Schulick.

Faina is pretty happy to be discharged and a little overwhelmed by the amount of responsibility we will be taking on. I am ready to take this next step. Six years of medical school, an MS in pharmacology, and a DDS and she is edgy. I have degrees in education and Jewish studies. In which harbor would you drop anchor in this particular storm?

The theme of the day, one of my favorite Biblical exhortations, Hazak Ve'Ematz - Be strong and of good courage (Yehoshua 10:23).