Baby Steps, increasing! (I typed these 3 words before 8 this a.m.... and that's all the further I got til now... nearly 12 hrs later!) Wow! Where on earth do I begin... it's been a LONG, LONG, Day! We had another night with much confusion due to meds and that is always NOT a fun thing. We have had a FULL day and quite eventful. "All things work together for the good..." is definitely been at work with us here. "Tough Love" has been in practice all day... which to be honest, I'm NOT too good at. I tried it this a.m. and Natasha ended up loosing her breakfast! That's where it ended for me, now I'm gonna just be the "NICE nurse" style, I'll leave that "tough love stuff to someone else. :) But Natasha has done therapy and done it well, learned to climb stairs, in preperation for heading home, Lord willing tomorrow. A major prayer request that I have for EVERYONE.... we have GOT to get her pain meds under control and finally through the Lord's help and understanding, I was able to start to narrow it down today. PRAISE THE LORD! The Lord sent a wonderful nurse on shift that has helped me big time, plus Dr. Crawfords nurse... to finally ask the right questions to help this all start to make sense! Natasha has been so emotional, scared, reactionary, and a whole bunch of other descriptive words that I can't spell, since surgery and I've been wondering what to do with all of that... so today we are real close to some answers. thanks for praying with us about this, for if it's not under control she can't come home tomorrow! Natasha has only wanted a quiet birthday celebration... too weepy with meds and pain and emotions to want much company etc. So we have had a quiet day as far as company, but a full day with nice presents sent from friends, cards from family, and even had a birthday cake delivered to her room from the hospital staff. They sang "Happy Birthday" to her and made her day! Have a wonderful night... and I SURE HOPE TO TOO... with some SLEEP!! :)