A few more days than expected

Things continue to go well for Jason although the surgical team is telling us he may not get out of the hospital until Thursday or Friday now. Hopefully two more chest tubes out tomorrow. He is still coughing a lot and they are doing blood and other cultures to make sure pneumonia isn't setting in. They finally changed his pain meds today and put him on patient administered Dilatid. That has seemed to control his pain quite a bit better. He is really drowsy and falls asleep in mid-sentence at times. We have to prod him to get a full sentence. Betsy brought Spencer down to see Jason again. I think it continues to lift his spirits a bit and Spencer doesn't seemed phased by all of the tubes and everything else.
We have decided to not have any more NA's at night because the two we have had haven't been particularly helpful. The one last night wanted to watch TV and he wouldn't turn the TV off. So Diane and John are switching off during the night. Betsy and John will extend their stay one more day and Rick will be coming back next Monday to help us travel back. He may even join us on our flight to Bend just because the planes into Redmond are smaller and Jason will have to climb the stairs to the plane and I just wasn't so sure how I would help him and carry Spencer since Spencer is on my lap. So each day we learn more, get more of our questions asked, and become more competent and confident and providing Jason's nursing needs while we are with him. I told Diane today that in the end we would submit them our bill for our services. It seems like there is always something to do, whether its grabbing the nurse, checking the drain tubes, getting him up and down, encouraging him to eat more food and helping him to be more comfortable. I think there was only about one hour today that I actually sat down.
anyway, we will continue to update this as we find out more information. It's just a little slower than the quicker progress from earlier.
Take care.