According to Wil, Miles was restless last night, but slept on and off until about 4 am. Miles was awake when I arrived at 6:30 am Sunday, but not very happy about it.
The day was again all about pain management for Miles. We have found that the morphine every 4 hours (he's allowed to have it every 2) along with valium and his epidural has worked well for him. We'll see if we can't have larger gaps between the morphine tomorrow. He had a slight fever today, but that has gone down. He's also had some swelling, a little in his right foot and then quite a bit in his "nether regions." We have been assured that this will go down, but maybe not until Monday.
He spent most of the day sleeping comfortably—this is good. The awake time was not as pleasant an experience since that was when he seemed to be in the most pain. He did seem better as the day went on.
No other news to report. Hanging out in a hospital room is not very much fun for any of us, but the staff at the hospital has been superb. Our anticipated timeline is that his epidural will come out Monday and he will get his final cast on Monday as well. We should be able to go home either Tuesday or Wednesday depending on how he does with the pain management, swelling, fever, etc. Things are looking pretty good. Tomorrow should be much of the same as today, perhaps with some more wakeful time and Miles continuing the path of returning to his same old self.
Updates to follow.
Annie
The full (temporary) cast.
Some friends from home.
Looking a bit groggy.
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