Surgery Day - 10 PM (last post today)

Terrie is resting peacefully in the CCU. They have decided to keep her sedated through the night instead of the norm of beginning to remove her tubations. They then will begin to wake her and make sure she can breathe on her own before totally removing the respirator. They also plan on leaving the drainage tube in her stomach a little longer than normal so they can keep aspirating her stomach fluids and reduce the chances of nausea. The day nurse also put a patch on her - the kind that people get when they go on a cruise to avoid nausea. Obviously they are doing all they can to avoid her normal nausea when she is coming out from under anesthetics. We also want to be careful of her pain medications which can cause the same problem. Please pray that God will spare her the torture of throwing up after such a drastic surgery. I'm about to head for the house to shower and get a little sleep. I'm battling an allergy headache that has worked me over all day. I know, poor little Charley! Him wittle head is hurting and his wife is in CCU with her sternum wired together! Anyway, I'm going to rest so I'll be more helpful to her tomorrow when she is awake. May the Lord bless all of you who labored in prayer for my precious wife today. We are not out of the woods yet, so keep it up, please!