Saturday at Mayo Clinic

Julie is awake and doing very well. She has very little pain. In fact she said it just felt like she had done too many sit ups. I'm pretty sure she hasn't done any sit ups so I think they gave her a good work out during the surgery. She is on a liquid diet until at least mid afternoon. Lucky for Julie the vanilla milkshake was an acceptable liquid diet option for breakfast. She said it was either milkshake or cream of wheat and really which would you pick? They don't want to put too much pressure on the tummy one day post surgery, but told her by evening she could probably eat pretty normally. They got her up out of bed during the night and she said that didn't hurt and wasn't really a problem. The surgeons were in this morning and said she was healing just perfectly, and were happy with her progress. She will be doing some hallway laps later today. This floor kind of looks like a walking track right now, so Julie will be joining the 6th floor crew in just a little bit. Hope all is well with all of you. Thanks for all the notes and messages.
Robin
Oh P.S. Robin V. Yes we are still at Mayo Clinic. The clinic itself is four or five great big buildings. That's where all the outpatient stuff happens. Mayo also owns two hospitals St. Mary's hospital which is where we were until yesterday. St. Mary's is a HUGE hospital. It has 14 miles of hallway, 1600 beds and over 100 operating rooms. But it is NOT where they do colorectal surgeries. So we were transfered to Rochester Methodist Hospital also owned by Mayo Clinic. It has 794 beds, 41 operating rooms and is being completely remodeled. The floor Julie is on was just finished about a month ago and is really beautiful. So the short answer is YES we are still at Mayo.