Melissa will spend at least one more night in the hospital. She has to stay until her stoma becomes active. They want to make sure it is working right. They removed the IV line out of her left arm yesterday. She still has the central line in her neck but that will probably come out today or tomorrow. She also still has a wound drain in but she was told that she could go home with that if need be. They would teach her how to take care of it. She is only taking ibuprofen for pain.

She is still weak but today walked the hall with her dad without using the old lady walker as she calls it. Although she complains about the pain she is still glad she did the surgery.