Well, we made it out of the hospital and are at Zach and Jen's house. The first night went well, it sure was nice that nobody woke John up to take his blood pressure, get his weight, take blood, see if he was feeling okay (that's the one that always threw me - they would literally wake you up to see how things were going).
The home health nurses will come out a couple of times a week to draw blood and check other stuff, so that should work out alright. It is an adjustment to go from round the clock monitoring to being turned out on your own, but we think that twice a week will be enough. We sure don't want his levels to change much without us knowing and being able to react to them with changes in medicine, so we'll keep a close eye on things as well as we can. We will have plenty of visits back to the doctor's office down at Emory, but hopefully no more emergency helicopter rides and frantic drives to the hospital. He is back on the IV pump that I change out here, so he is still hooked up to an IV line but at least he isn't dragging around a pole and isn't plugged into the wall.
We really can't thank all of you enough for your thoughts and prayers, I know I have said it before but it means so much to us. We'll keep in touch through this, but this is one of those "no news is good news" times.
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