Tuesday evening @ 6:00 pm pacific time

A quick update: Emily has slept most of the afternoon after arriving in her room at about 2:00. She surfaced slowly from the anathesia of surgery. She is having quite serious pain from the surgery and the hope is that it can be controlled with a boost in her pain meds. That and time to start healing. It really isn't much fun at the moment but she is taking a steady stream of ice chips and just had some jello. Maybe a full meal in a day or two, they have a pretty good salmon meal here that is her favorite. Emily also has established firm control. When she they were preparing to slide her from the transport litter to the room bed, some one asked casually if she could move her legs a bit. The reply was, 'not unless you can promise not to pull on that tube.' They said just please move your legs a bit. 'nope not unless you promise no pulls. ' Well you can bet the promise was made and duly kept.

So, hoping for a nice dull quite night, these first nights post surgical have a history of way more drama than is necessary. We have her bed made up with sheets and pillows from home. A little window box is on the bedside table with a lucky stones from her travels and little tokens that friends have given, a little toy tiger[filling in for Nicky] and watching over us all is Ted the teddy bear who has traveled with her most everywhere for about twenty years. He is an experienced and steady hand. Her nurse until seven pm is an old friend that has helped her for the past four years here at UW. There have been quite a few comments. Thanks to all. If you are just catching up, remember that the posts are from current to old as you scroll down the page. You may have missed some and to click on 'comments' at the bottom of each post to let you see other folks comments. More tomorrow.