Day 4: Exit Negotiations

 

She got a great sleep last night, probably 8 hrs, which is amazing.  As you can see she is up and ready to go.  We just took a nice long walk and got off the floor and were standing at the elevators - that was freedom at the press of a button.  Almost too easy to escape.  But we have some key items to negotiate over to make a clean/medically-legal escape.

The complicating factor is a blood thinner, Coumadin, she is on which sort of helps preserve and protect the the leaflets of her new valve.  Think of it as that paint protect-ant option they try to sell you on when you buy a new car - only, this one you have to take.  Coumadin is not a casual med., and needs to be monitored, so when they like to keep you in the hospital until the levels stabilize.  This is way worse than being in the hospital when in active recovery mode (during recover you have work to do), when waiting on Coumadin levels to stabilize you have nothing to do.  Hence, why I am in full on negotiating mode to see if we could get levels checked today, and then maybe at NVRH at home tomorrow.  Let's get creative people, COVID is in session, we are hogging a much needed bed from other cardiac patients, and we all got business and school to get back to.  Plus room and board here for Sarah and us is not cheap.

Still in negotiations... I worked over the surgical NP pretty hard with my case, and she is biting at the line a bit.  She did offer, even if later today, that would work.  Sarah and I both in stereo say YES!!  Judi is getting sick of my lobbying thinking it is just rude and over-stepping my bounds.  Hey, I'm a Leo and my cub wants to be home with her favorite little cub sister Molly!  This is all still way up in the air, and for sanity sake we need to assume we will still be here for the night. 😒

More to come later...