Evening

Spoke to Dr. Voyles before the 5:00 visitation. He is the surgeon that did Melisa's liver resection and, although he didn't do the surgery this time, he is considered her primary surgeon. He said she is progressing very nicely and is one heck of a strong woman. He did say, however, that she has two fights here and getting over the sepsis will be the easy fight. We are up against an aggressively growing cancer that is going unchecked until she's well and we get to MD Anderson. Until that point we have to fight this thing with good nutrition and lots of prayer and faith.

Melisa was in very good spirits. She was joking about being in a horribly uncomfortable hospital bed for two weeks now. She isn't having pain but she is very uncomfortable. She is able to use her arms more to help me move her around in bed but her hands are still tied to the bed to keep her from pulling out the ventilator tube. We are all hoping she will get it pulled out tomorrow.

Melisa was feeling well enough tonight that we convinced the charge nurse to let Aidan go back for a visit. He has been wanting to go back again but Melisa didn't want him to see her when she wasn't feeling like interacting with him. Both smiled ear to ear when he walked in the room and grabbed her hand. The biggest problem having him go back to see her is dealing with the ICU nurses that break down crying whenever they see him. Several have children close to Aidan's age and they put themselves in Melisa's position. I'm glad Melisa can't see me consoling all these cute nurses.haha :0

We love you all
Good night