The doctor came into the hospital room and smiled and told us that my mom did NOT have cancer. They removed all the benign tumor from her colon and she hopefully will recover. She will NOT have to undergo chemo therapy. That is the good news.

Mom still needs to eat and has been put on a soft food diet. She can have soup, Eggbeaters, mashed potatoes instead of just Jell-O and Yogurt. She has been kidding the nurses and telling them that she want's to have PRIME RIB. Maybe when she is released from the hospital or rehab center if she has to go there.

She is getting up out of bed and has been walking around the unit with assistance. Today she didn't feel very well. She has something wrong with her left lung from being in bed too long. They gave her some new antibiotics today and at first it made her a little nauseous. But she felt better this afternoon after she got up out of bed. She didn't get to walk around the unit today as she was not up to it today. But tonight she was able to drink some "BOOST" energy/protein shake and that was a good sign. She also passed to major milestones for people who are recovering from Large Bowl Operations. She passed gas and had a Bowel Movement. Believe it or not these are major improvements after having part of your large colon removed. She is doing a little bit better today, but she is not out of the woods yet.

She has pneumonia in her left lung and a little fluid in there too. A new X-Ray showed this.

She is getting a new antibiotic that's given to people after having colon surgery. It's a little bit stronger than the Ciprofloxacin that she has been getting. She has a PIC Line which makes giving her IV fluids much easier than having just a regular IV line.

I've been staying with her most all day and into the early evenings. She was sick to her stomach today and she thought she was going to die. But she did much better after she got used to the new medicines.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.