The next day

It was quite an eventful night. Due to his fevers and low blood pressure John was transferred from the orthopedic ward to bone marrow transplant ward which has many benefits. The first is he gets his own room and its cleaner so much less chance of him catching an infection while he is here. However the downside is the nurses here are not trained to deal with hip replacement patients. The physical therapist has come twice today and worked with John. The exercises he did were incredibly painful and although both times his blood pressure dropped and he had to lye down the physical therapists still said he "did well for his first day". His fevers went and blood pressure normalized early this morning but seem to return intermittently. He also has intense pain in the incision sites, and sporadic nerve spasms in his left leg. They are also culturally a blood and urine sample just in case the fevers are related to infection. There are few ideas flying around as to why he keeps having temperature and blood pressure problems; the first is he didn't get enough fluids during surgery, the sedation and epidural caused it (that's my theory after speaking with a number of people who have had epidurals) or its an infection. Suffice to say seeing John in intense pain is very hard but I take solace in the fact that after the pain will come the freedom. After all the joy comes in the morning and morning is coming...