Let the healing begin

Just a quick note: Today, I could see Shawn’s improvement as the day passed.  He seemed a bit stronger each time I visited him.  The increments were understandably small (this is open heart surgery, after all), but by the end of the day he had been able to sit up for a while and even ate some food.  He was in some pain, of course, but that was remedied with modern analgesics great and small.  There is a chance that he will be out of the ICU tomorrow, but we’ll see how things progress.