Otis had a pretty sleepless night last night, thrashing his arms around as he fought to be able to turn onto his side into his normal comfy sleep position. Although we kept up with his scheduled and PRN pain medications overnight just in case, the agitation seemed less from pain and more from discomfort and frustration out of not being able to move the way he wanted. He finally drifted off to sleep for a good solid nap at about 7:00am, and has passed a really peaceful day ever since--a total 180 from the pain and agitation of yesterday.
Later on this morning we were able to give him a bed bath which left him clean, happy and feeling good. He enjoyed another long nap while the physical therapist came in to train us on how to safely tranfer Otis to and from his bed to his temporary reclining wheelchair (which was delivered to O's hospital room this morning!) using both a Hoyer lift and just an unassisted two-person lift. The PT provided a special sling to use with the lift that will allow us to keep Otis lying flat throughout the lift, rather than lifting him into a full seated position which most lift slings are designed to do. Otis slept through the entire Hoyer lift training and kept napping in the wheelchair while we ate lunch, until our clunky two-person lift finally woke him up. We decided we'll just stick to using the Hoyer!
It was a kind of low-key lazy afternoon of Otis watching movies (Nemo and Dory) on his tablet. We've got just a couple of items to check off the list before we're able to go home tomorrow, including a baseline x-ray of Otis's newly remodeled pelvis. It's been nice feeling so supported around the clock with all of the extra skilled hands here at the hospital, but we are ready--if still a little nervous--to be back in our home, getting settled into our new routine.
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