Lucas Camilo

We’ve noticed that our cat Raven has been acting very strange while Lucas is on the hospital. Humans haven’t been around that much, and she can probably sense that there is heightened anxiety around the house when we are there. But more than anything, she missed Lucas. Well, now that he’s back in his regular spot on the couch Raven is snuggling in with him, content at last.

Lucas’s last day at Children’s went about as expected — a classic hurry-up-and-wait. Some doctors from the Orthopedics team came in at 7 am as Lucas and I were still waking up to tell us… nothing really. He’d get discharged at some point today (which we already knew) but needed to get the final go-ahead from the surgeon first, “probably sometime after noon…” But then by 10:30 someone came in and removed his last drain, followed by the IV, and we were clear to go. We started frantically packing up everything strewn about his room, picked up his medications… but of course the discharge papers still had to be signed, which somehow took another 2 hours. Finally, around 1 pm we loaded Lucas in his wheelchair (pain not too bad!), grabbed the “get well soon” balloon that Ida gifted him, and headed out the door.

Heading out!

Now that we’re home it seems like a real whirlwind. Overall, given the intensity of the surgery and the usual nature of in-patient hospital stays we feel pretty good about where things are at. Hopefully Lucas will be back up in his wheelchair soon, blogging himself about how his new, straight, titanium-rod assisted spine is treating him.