Rachel was moved from the PICU to the regular children’s ward around noon today. She went for a short walk with PT this morning and another short one with a nurse this afternoon. PT will try for a longer walk and maybe stairs tomorrow.

She’s still hooked up to heart rate monitors because she’s still using the morphine PCA (where she controls how much morphine she gets) so it’s a real headache just to get up to go to the bathroom; they have to unhook those before she can get up.

She has to share a room here, unlike at Maine Med or the PICU here. That’s taking some getting used to – other people talking and having visitors and watching TV when all she wants to do is sleep.

Mass General children’s hospital gives out stuffed animals instead of quilts (which is what Maine Med gives), so she got a new bear and also a nice welcome sign when she got there.

Her oncologist (here in Boston, not Portland) stopped by this evening and said he’d see her on Monday when he’s back, so it sounds like she’ll be in the hospital at least that long.