Saturday morning

Hi, it's Lisa again, this time writing from Seattle, where I returned late last night. Beth sounds good on the phone. She had a rough night because the epidural machine stopped working and so she experienced the full pain from the surgery area, chest tube, and all. She said it was terrible. After a while an anaesthesiologist came upstairs and gave her a shot of the epidural drug, which provided near-complete relief within a minute. But the machine is working again now. This morning they took out the chest tube. So I think going home is mostly now a matter of figuring out the pain management. Better living through medicine...