A Room with a View

Dallin was moved out of ICU today and upstairs to a normal room. 
Woohoo!
Signal the marching band, bring in the cheerleaders, light the fireworks and shoot the confetti!!

Here is a run down of today:

I got to the hospital at 9am because Dallin was scheduled get up and do his walk with physio first thing.  I got to his room and there he was, sitting in a chair with his brace on.  I had already missed the walk.  But he was happy to be up, was breathing really well and said the walk went well.  Dr. Suh had been by earlier and had given him the play by play of the surgery and drawn a diagram of what his hardware looks like on his spine.  Dallin wants to eventually scan a picture in to show everyone.  It's pretty neat to see what they did.  He wanted to rest a bit in his chair so I went off to take care of financial paperwork.

 When I got back a while later, he was ready to lie down so the nurses help him back into bed. He was in great spirits- making jokes, making the nurses laugh and overall feeling really good. After he had his lunch, I let him nap while I went and ate. He rested off and on for a few hours after that, watched a bit of tv, then Mark stopped by to visit.  Physio came back to teach Dallin how to move to get in and out of bed around 4pm.  Then it was time for the big transfer.  He had to stop by Xrays before moving up to his new room.

The new room is about 4 times the size of his previous one.  The ICU he was in used to be NICU so the rooms were really small, made with the intent of cribs, not adult sized beds.  Needless to say, the new room is luxuriously spacey and includes a window to the outside world.

After getting settled and introductions by the new staff, a surgeon came by to take out his top chest drain. This is a very good sign. I was worried that it might hurt but the nurse said some people say it just feels weird; Dallin didn't even feel it.

With our new access to wifi, I read through all the comments from friends and family that have been posted on facebook.  He was so grateful to hear them.  I was getting ready to leave but it started pouring outside so we waited that out then I took off for the evening.  Dallin gave me a high five before I left.  The boy is back!