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Originally Posted by lonelyarmywife

another quick update...he is making a REMARKABLE recovery and was moved from ICU to a regular room today. The dr. anticipates about another week in the hospital. He is very clear-eyed and coherant, sitting up in a chair and coughing....pretty good for essentially being gutted 48 hours ago.

((((LAW & Family)))))

Not that he had cancer, but Mr. Lixy had a large portion of his colon removed in 2001...without the need for a colostomy bag, though I think his current condition might have been aleviated if they had of bagged him for a while, till he healed. <---To that, I can't be sure...just a hunch!

Anyway...Mr. Lixy was under the knife for about 5 or more hours and it was so late at night (emergency case) that I was alone in the waiting room...and I "cleaned" the entire room twice! They told me they were scoping his appendix and he'd come out with, at the most, a six inch incision. Came out cut from sternum to pubes! No meds hooked up to him...came out of the mind blog in extreme pain. Tubes down his throat, up his nose, in his belly...EVERYWHERE! Morphine to the rescue! He was on it for 4 days and I didn't like his reaction to it (though he scolds me now for making them take him off it...lol!).

Oh...my point? He's said that he now knows the worst pain there is on a "scale of 1-10", which they constantly ask you when you have surgery. He can commiserate with a new mom's cesarean birth! But...as soon as he was off morphine and up and about and able to "walk himself back into shape", he was a new man! I hope you FIL has a remission to beat all remissions and I continue to keep him in my thoughts and send vibes of health!