this morning, i went in and jerry had eaten solid food for breakfast, cereal, cream of wheat too, toast, and juice. the nurses came in to remove his lidicane strips but he had already done so, one staple is already coming out and they are all loose, they look really good, nurse said oh, after three weeks they look like this and are ready to come out , the doc will prob have them out any day now, well i look at her, look at wall calendar and said. um.. today is the tenth? and he had surgery on the 2cd. its only been 8 days.. she looked back at jerrys staples and was like wow.. youre healing really fast, those look old not new. well hallelujah. maybe we can beat kathleens 20day stay? i could only wish to be so lucky. hes up and about, now if theyd only take that dang catheter out, hed get up more to go pee. they also stopped his basal pain meds. gave him oral methadone, and left the bump on the pain pump optional for him well there was a slight goof on meds, and thank GOD we caught it, she toldus she was there to give him his oxycodone, we both blurted out. oh nooo nooo not that one. i told the nurse the one time he took ONE twelve hour extened one it put him in hosp for a week. no thanks!! so instead she had to call down and get methadone, well we told her 5 - ten milligram pills for a total of 50 mg 2x day. well she brought him ONE 5 mg pill. okay accidents happen so she went and had reorded it. well he ended up going about an hour and a half with out pain med. so it climbed back up on him , and he was hurting. so he was going to try to sleep i left at 4. a nurse told us this morn too , that he has classes tomorrow and monday. i think around 2pm. i think for diabetes. so we will do those in hopes of getting out quicker. lol.