Tuesday Morning Update #1 - January 22, 2013

6:54 am: After a night of waking up every two hours, having 3 people try to"suck" your blood with only one success; our patient has run out of patience. The second phlebotomists was asked to stop hurting him and the last one couldn't get close enough because he requested his doc before he'd let her touch him. Luckily, his surgeon came in and gave Matt the thumbs that he's doing really well; However, he must have one more sodium test and it has to be clear, then could will be discharged today!! Now, we have been told things before where we've gotten our hopes up and we are going by hospital time. So, Matt took a shower, is up drinking lots of water to get those veins pumping, and we wrapped our heated blanket around his arm in hopes that this will help him become a "good stick" just one more time.