Home!

Tom is home!  He was released this morning less than forty-eight hours after his surgery. Yesterday I picked up some newspapers and went to visit him. They already had him walking around but were feeding him only liquids and not very tasty ones at that. I got a room at the nearby motel and made plans for my friend Marie to come and spend the night with me. This morning after the complimentary breakfast we took a short walk. I returned to the motel room around 10:00 to find a message on my phone that he was ready to be released.

Everything I have read online says that three to ten days is the usual stay for his procedure, but they let him go in less than two. He was dressed and ready when I arrived at 10:30. The directions are basically to eat soft food and gradually introduce his regular foods. Tom wanted to go get a burrito. I wanted to get some more specifics from a nurse. She vetoed the burrito and suggested soup, toast, muffins and ice cream. We stopped at Starbucks on the way home and he got a latte and blueberry muffin and was in heaven.  He's taking a nap on the sofa now, happy as a clam.  Are clams really happy? Maybe he's happy as a man released from the hospital and napping on his own sofa.

That's the news for now folks.