Angie & Jim

Going Homeby Jim

The nurse just told us that she’s ready to start the discharge process. The requirements for her to go home were 1) walk around 2) eat food 3) use the bathroom. Angie has had her walk, eaten lunch, and used the restroom. The nurse is reading her the discharge instructions right now, so we’re almost ready. The IV is still in, and that’s usually our gauge for when they’re serious about us going home. We’ve had to stay even after they told us we were going home, so we wait until the IV before we consider ourselves ready to go home.

We have not heard results from the cardiologist, but the doctor did tell us that the preliminary results from the catheterization was okay. The numbers were in the normal range, they weren’t great, but they weren’t terrible. So I guess that’s as good as we can expect.

When they put the IV in earlier this morning, we told them that sometimes it is hard to place, so they called in a specialist to put it in using an ultrasound! I’d never seen that before, and it was pretty cool. We could see on the ultrasound the vein and then the needle as she pushed it in.

Okay, and now the IV is out! We’re headed home. Thanks for following along today!