1/24/15

Nora did great on the flight here-she slept for half and then caught up on some reading:)

The procedure went really well on Wednesday, and Nora is recovering well. They worked on the area near her epiglottis, and the doctors were happy with how things went. There is some swelling, which is normal, and her tongue has been bleeding a little bit (but not as bad as it has in the past). I guess that is normal too, and should (hopefully) stop soon.  She still seems uncomfortable at times, but overall, she is pretty happy.  

Because of the bleomycin, Nora couldn't have any adhesives on her skin for 72 hours.  Her IV was held in by gauze wrapped around her arm, so it wasn't a huge surprise when I discovered she had pulled it out during the night. When we got to the recovery area after the surgery, the nurse who was holding her told me that Nora was a very feisty girl and had been trying to crawl out of the bed:)

We are *hopefully* coming home today. Our flight has been cancelled and rescheduled twice because of the weather here. We currently have a later flight into Chicago-please pray that we can get home tonight! Besides the fact that we just want to be home, the Ronald McDonald house doesn't have a room for us tonight, so we'd need to find another place for the night, which would kind of be a pain.  Please pray that everything will work out and that Nora will do well on the flight home.  I'm going to finish packing up the room-thank you for praying!