I should be going home tomorrow.  I was still needing the Dilaudid this morning, so they let me stay an extra day until I can control the pain a little better on my own.  I'm back down to the Tylenol 3 this evening, and my pain is tolerable if still worse than expected.  I didn't nurse Liam this morning because I didn't want him to be getting the Dilaudid.  But he's had my milk on Tylenol 3 the last few weeks with no visible effects, so I got to nurse him this evening.

Dr. Livingston came by around lunch and said everything looks good.  There is a small gray area along the incision, near the center, but he said it was just bruising from grabbing with clamps or forceps or something, and nothing to worry about.

I sure hope I can talk them into taking my drains out sooner rather than later.  There's nothing coming out of them, or almost nothing.  Last time, he said he wanted the output to be below 30cc per drain per day.  The last twelve hours of today, I got 9cc in one drain and 7cc in the other.  I think I'm losing more blood from around the drain site than from the drain itself.