Friday morning I kept waiting for a doctor to come in and see me to evaluate how I was doing and answer any questions, and no one showed up - usually someone comes between 6 and 7 in the morning. I woke up pretty hungry and was dying to have something other than liquids - which just do not seem very filling. I finally asked the nurse about it and she paged the doctor and he gave the okay for me to try solid foods. Yea!!

When they finally brought the menu to me I ordered some toast and fruit and some scrambled eggs and sausage. The toast was overcooked, the eggs tasted pretty gross and the sausage was already giving me heartburn after just a couple of bites! Yikes! I think I am going to go crazy here on the hospital food.

I had quite a bit of diahrrea most of the day and felt like I was always having to get up and use the bathroom. There has been little to no drainage again today so that is good news. I have been trying to get up and walking some more but unfortunately need to stay close to the bathroom!

A doctor finally came in and saw me later in the afternoon and I am crossing my fingers that they will let me go home tomorrow. He said that the infectious disease team was going to come talk to me because I guess the ball is somewhat in their court as to whether or not I can be released. Apparently I have two different infections - one in the blood stream and a separate one in my urine. The urinary one is a common one so they are not concerned about that, but they are concerned with how I got the bacteria that is in my blood.

Just as the doctor was about to leave my room the infectious disease team came in and they asked me all sorts of questions and then looked at my abdomen and felt around it to see if I had pain anywhere - which is a silly question to ask someone who has just had major abdominal surgery... I guess afterwards they decided to order a CT scan on me to make sure that there was nothing abnormal that they could see from the scan. I was worried at first that they were going to make me drink the oral contrast - which gives me diahrrea - but they didn't. It was pretty quick - they just wheeled me down to the imaging floor and we were done in less than 10 minutes.

Friday night I did not sleep well at all for some reason. I slept in the same position as the night before but just laid there for hours at a time never really drifting off to sleep.  Plus, I kept having to use the bathroom too.