"We're OUT!!!"

There it is... the title I've been waiting for!!

Yippeeeeee - We were discharged from St. Mary's late this morning and are settled in to the Hampton Inn in Rochester for the night. Tim was not up to driving quite yet, so we're going to get him a good night's sleep and head for Des Moines tomorrow. We figure 3 hours will be just about the limit of how much time he can take in the car, so we're breaking the trip up to two days (at the least) barring any set backs.

As for how he's feeling... let's just say Amen for pain pills. He's really continuing to progress at lightning speed, and surpassing every goal we seem to set for him. I look forward to getting him home and into his own bed, and then just more rest, walking, and meds. Seeing how he lost more than half of his own blood during the operation, at this point he's got a long road to getting his body back to "normal" but is off to a running start.

I'm hoping to post on Sunday night with news that we're home!!