Stretch is out of the hospital!
After spending one night in the cardiac ICU and five nights in the stepdown unit, Stretch was discharged today!
We're so happy to report that Stretch is no longer confined to a hospital bed now! Instead he's confined to a king size bed resting under a gigantic flat screen tee-vee in our room at the Millenium Hilton in downtown NYC. From our room window on the 39th floor we get to see the Hudson river in the background, NYC skyline in the foreground, and sadly, Ground Zero. It's hard to imagine what was there once...
He's doing fine, but his body is sore and weak. So his job for the next few days (and weeks) is to sleep, eat, walk. We'll see Dr. Stelzer on Wednesday, and if all goes well, we plan to return home on Thursday.
In the mean time, while Stretch was in ICU and stepdown, I developed an upper respiratory infection marked with continuous coughs day and night. Needless to say, it was hard for me to see Stretch as I was very careful NOT to share my germs with him. So armed with a mask and lots of hand sanitizer I came to his hospital room and for a few days could only spend a couple of hours with him and then back to the apartment trying to get some rest. We hope that was all behind us. I still cough a lot, but also taking a number of cough suppressants and antibiotic pills. Tonight will be the test of love "in sickness". Will we be able to share a hotel room?
Stay tuned...
