Days 5 & 6

Joel is getting better day by day but progress is still slow. He was able to get up and take a few steps down the hall on Tuesday night. Pain is still an issue. Nothing seems to work and Joel is getting real tired of being in pain. The epidural worked for a couple days but it stopped working and they switched to a morphine drip which didn't work that well. They took the catheter out and all the IV's so now Joel is on oral meds and they didn't help at first either and Joel had to get something stronger. Just doesn't make sense that someone should have to be in such pain for days before getting the right script but it then again I think the meds work as long as he doesn't move. So if he could just be a statue life would be swell. I decided Wednesday night was my last night at the hospital because Joel was over a hump and I needed to get back to work and the kids needed to be at "my home" as Ty says.