Sunny Day!

It has to be a sunny day...Woody got released from NIH this morning. He is doing great...not having much pain at all...hasn't had anything for pain since last evening.

I got to Woody's hospital room around 9am and it took till close to 11am till we were able to leave. When the doctor saw him very early this morning, he said that he was signing the release...well, it took forever for them to have the ok to take out the IV...and then we had to get back the pills that he had with him when he came...first they brought just two and had to go get the other one that was in a different place...then we had to wait on the doctor's note that said that he had been in the hospital for Woody to take to work on Monday...and then for the doctor to write a prescription...lots of "then this" and "then that's!" One of the first things that Woody said, when I got there this morning, was that he didn't want the nurse that he had had the day before...that she had been rather scattered. Almost immediately after he said that, who should walk in as his nurse for the morning! And, then the best...drum roll............the nurse likes Woody so much that she is going to put him on her preferred patient list for when he comes back!!!!!!!!! Too funny! She is very nice...just not as organized as some of his other nurses and he found that it took a long time to get things done when he made a request.

After getting "sprung," we came back to the hotel to rest and relax for a bit. On our way back to the hotel, Woody spotted an interesting market that he wanted to check out. After we had been back a while, we WALKED to the market...Woody said that he needed exercise...he said that it was a "good mile" (I think that round trip was closer to two miles...but that is me!). The market was interesting...this was a speciality type market/deli. We ended up eating part of what we bought there at a table at the market and then brought home some for supper/snacking this evening.

Woody seems none the worse for wear. My adrenalin rush seems to have stopped. I took a nap after getting back from the hospital and then flopped on the bed and stared at the TV after getting back from our lunch outing. Woody has been working crossword puzzles.

As Woody predicted, his pain is much less after surgery than it was prior to surgery. The incision looks amazing considering that it is only a day old. The main surgeon told us this morning that he was going to be talking to Dr. Sosman this afternoon (about melanoma research) and that he would report to Dr. Sosman on Woody's surgery.

We plan to start home in the morning...guess I'll be blogging some where along the road back to TN.