The Day After
Hello out there... This is Kat's sister, Jo. I am going to type a few entries for Kat while she is in the hospital. Her surgery took 12 hours... a lot longer than they thought, because of how much work they had to do to straighten her out. She was in I.C.U. last night and on a ventillator until they took her off it today. She is still in I.C.U. and she looks like someone beat the living hell out of her. Of course she is gonna be in a lot of pain after what they did, but it is hard to see someone you love suffering like that. It made us cry. No one deserves to have to go through that.
But, on a good note, she looked straight! She was in the hospital bed, and her shoulders were even and her back straight. I had to look again, because it was noticably different than the body she had yesterday. The doctor told me that the surgery went very well, and that there were no complications, other than how tedious it was and how long it took to get everything right. I told him I was worried about how much pain she was in for, and he agreed that she would be in pain for awhile, but that patients like her were his most grateful patients in the long run. I guess we'll see.
Thank-you to all of you who are supportive of Kat, and for all your positive thoughts. I will keep you posted. We will go to see her again tomorrow, and I will post another update. :) Jo
