Baby steps

Shane is still in the step-down unit, still on oxygen, and still has the nasal-gastric tube and other drains tubes in.  He is also still receiving antibiotics.  He is in less pain, but he's tired because his heart is beating faster than normal and that takes a lot of energy.  Nevertheless, things are slowly improving.  He sat up in a regular chair and even did a little walking in his room with a walker.  His intestines even started turning back on little bit.  We talked to his surgeon today and he said Shane will be in the hospital for about another week.  He also said Shane's pathology report came back today and looks good.  As a result of the chemo-radiation treatement, he was "down-staged" to stage 1 (T2N0).  In other words, the lymph nodes they tested were all negative for cancer, which means the chance of re-occurance is low.