Yay for Steve!

Tuesday was and awesome day I have to say. He hasn't looked and felt this good since last Thursday. His stomach issues resolved for the most part and he took 10 walks today - more than double the amount he took yesterday. He is doing so much better and we are all relieved! They took him off of the liquid diet by dinner time so he had his first solid food Tuesday night - lasagna! In true Steve form he no longer passed up dessert tonight either. The nurse actually came in and gave Steve a liquid diet dinner that could serve as his snack until his lasagna arrived and it was his first flavorful meal in a while. I couldn't resist taking a picture of Steve VERY MUCH enjoying his chicken broth!

Steve is on track to be released Wednesday and we are really excited. He is ready to get out of the hospital and get home to Toby. He started reading again today and watching tv and missing Seattle. They gave him an echocardiogram today too and they said it looked great. The surgery was successful as far as they can tell but the true test will be when he exercises. Once again they keep telling us that he NEEDED the surgery to survive - especially after seeing all the scar tissue in his heart that was removed. So thank goodness for Mayo once again. The people here and all the nurses are just fantastic. I can't say enough good things about Mayo and St. Mary's. MN is another issue - freaking cold here!

Hopefully when he gets out Wednesday he'll be more awake and would welcome texts and phone calls - although I can't promise he'll make much sense. He has been entertainingly confused today and mentioned that they shouldn't ever give him "carnotics" again - aka narcotics. Man I love him.

I'll let you know when he is released! Thanks so much again for your comments. We have loved reading them and hopefully Steve can take over the blog soon too.....