Gus has been Sprung

Gus was discharged from the hospital late Tuesday afternoon. 

At the University of Washington Hospital there is a team for everything. The pain team disconnected the epidural, the resident team disconnected the drainage tube from the incision site, and the nurse disconnected the central line. It took two days to get everything disconnected. It was almost comical. 

One of the things we were not aware of earlier is that Gus is required to give himself a daily injection of blood thinner in the fat of his abdominal muscles. Only problem is he does not have any fat there. Needles don’t bother him. He just cannot see what he is doing. If you see band-aids all over his left hand it is because he cannot see where the needle is going.

Doctor Whiting, the medical oncologist will meet with Gus the same day that Dr. Park is seeing Gus again. It will be on Tuesday January 6th. We are excited to meet with Dr. Whiting so soon. 

Dr. Park stopped by just to say goodbye to Gus as we were leaving the hospital yesterday. I think Gus is more than just a patient to him.