10:30 pm

Just checked in on Marie -- she's doing well, but still in the ICU for the night. Her hemoglobin was very low due to the procedure and all the blood loss, so they transfused two units of blood and will test again in the morning. She's pretty loopy from the pain meds, which makes conversation a whole lot of fun. Hope we can get her up to speed to transfer to a room tomorrow; it's not fun sitting in the waiting room with forty other people for two hours to visit for twenty minutes (though I must say, we are all bonding quite a bit out there).