What a Difference a Day Makes!

Wow! Amazing! I would call our girl's recovery unbelievable, but then it IS Marianna. We have heard back from all of her doctors, they are all THRILLED at her progress. The collapsed lungs are back and working on their own, the bowel is working, and she is sitting up running the hospital from her bed. So if ya wanna chat, have at it. If she is tired, she will shut off her phone. Just try to keep it short still, and listen for her struggling for breath.

She will need to stay for at least another week, but then if she is doing this well they can start a low dose round of chemo and begin beating back the cancer! She will need to stay there for that as well, it sounds like. So we have some time before she comes home, but that's OK, she will come home to us when she can.

I have to share what she would call a "Grammie story". On Friday night, Marianna was out and out delirious, the Adavan really made her not herself, and she spent the night talking to people who were not there. She needed someone to be with her all night, to keep from pulling out tubes and wires. To say it was the low point was an understatement. But in her confusion, talking to someone clearly not in the room, we heard her mutter, "But we don't let little things like that bother us, do we?" Even in her worst time, she was still Marianna. And God Bless her for it.