Day 4 Post-Transplant

Anna is waiting for a room in step down! She is completely off of her blood pressure meds and is in good spirits. She looks so great and is so pink in the face. The solumedrol is giving a little bit of hallucinations but they seem to be happy ones, seeing birds and balloons. She now is sporting some great blue sushi socks that she is showing off now. We are continuing to decorate her toilet paper rolls for her room in step down.

A report from Linda Shak: I just went in to visit Anna with Casey and Sara and she looks and sounds AMAZING!! She was very chatty and was cracking some jokes. We told her all about the love she is getting on facebook. She LOVED hearing about all her supporters. Anna has to breath into a spirometer to help her expand her lungs and she did a great job. It was so fun to watch her do it because each time she tried to breath deeper and deeper and get her number to go up higher. Every time it would go higher, her eyes would get big and she gets a big smile. I asked her what it was like to breath with her new lungs, and she said, "I don't feel anything. it's so weird. It's amazing, It's awesome!" It is amazing and awesome! She also told us, "I got really good lungs!" We also told Casey that now that Anna doesn't have three treatments a day, Casey should give Anna 3 massages a day! She liked the sound of that. I am on cloud 9 from my visit with Anna and practically skipped out of the ICU. Sara checked with the nurses station and it sounds like Anna will be getting moved out of the ICU into stepdown within the next hour or so. Yahooooooo! I am just so filled with thanks on this thanksgiving!