Quickie Amanda update:

She's "recovering from her procedure, but she's not in a room yet." Quoth the kind woman who answered the hospital info number.

Will update with further info as I have it.

link (20 oct)

Courtesy update that I really don't know any more status on Amanda than I did earlier. Her mom called a while ago, and said Amanda didn't actually go into the OR until 10 this morning.

Will post when I know more. (Or when I know something, really)

link (20 oct)

"Ed! Ted Koppel! (weak attempt at a thumbs up sign) Ted Koppel is the new David Gergen!"

"No, David Gergen is the new David Gergen. Like bl..."

"Like black is the new black."

So we have our Amanda back, and she's fine. When you show up in person, you get a lot more than when you just call the hospital on the phone.

Turns out she actually came out of the OR around 1:15 and has been doing quite well, although she's sufficiently hepped up on goofballs that she doesn't really feel any pain. She was groggy, as you'd expect, but she managed not only to wake up, but to recognize me and prove that aliens hadn't stolen her brain in the process.

The doctor had come out of her surgery and gone straight into another one, which explains why Robin hadn't heard anything when I talked to her this afternoon.

Word from the ICU nurse, who was ending her shift but nice enough to let me come in for a few minutes, is that she's doing really well. She got both a kidney and a pancreas. Her blood pressure's good, she's "putting out good urine," her sugars are good, they've already taken her off a couple of the IV medications they had her on, and they're currently (as of 7pm that is) "replacing potassium." No word on when they'll move her out of the ICU and into a room where she can have visitors and flowers and stuff. The nurse thought there might actually be a chance it would be Saturday, since Amanda was doing so well so far, but Sunday is probably more likely.

And after about two minutes of apparent alertness, Amanda was asleep again. So I left. She's in good hands.

link (20 oct)