We're Home!

It's Thursday (two days post-surgery) and we're home! Things were going well yesterday, so this became the new "plan"-- to get him out of the hospital today.

Yesterday they took him off the IV because he was able to take pain meds orally. And his airway is staying nice and open. The reason to stay in the hospital is that they worry about airway swelling. But when I went to the hospital at 7:00 this morning one of the doctor's was there and he stuck a scope down Tor's nose to look at the throat. He declared it open and therefore okay for Tor to go home.

And was Tor ever ready to get out of there! Hospitals are noisy places.

Tor's biggest complaint right now (physically) is that his nose is stuffed up. That's part of what happens because of the swelling. The upper jaw is right below the nose. His mouth and nose are also dry. So they give him saline nasal spray and mouth rinse.

I actually think the facial swelling is down a bit.

It's great to be home.