9:00am Friday

Meghan got to her room around 1am last night per Matt.  Matt and mom stayed up to see her and then slept in the room overnight.

They are all up and Matt sent me this update via text:

"She got up to the room about 1 this morning.  She looks great, good color, shes talking and doing well.  She has some pain from time to time but not a whole lot all together."

Some folks have asked about a room number.  She is in 6522 and the address for the hospital is:

UPMC Passavant–McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15237

I don't know for sure, but I suppose you could just send cards there with her name and room number, but I am going to see if I can get some more info.  Fortunately, our family hasn't spent too much time in the hospital, so I don't know I have ever needed to get a card mailing address for a patient.  If someone else knows how it should be addressed, please chime in.

[An alternative may be to take advantage of an e-card program from UPMC.  From what I can gather, you fill out the card and the staff at UPMC will print it out and deliver it.  I can't vouch for how well it works, but here is the website:


https://ecards.upmc.com/default.asp ] added after initial posting



She'll be there for about 7 days.  If you want to send a card to my mom's (where I expect she will be spending most of her recovery) if you aren't sure it will get to the hospital before she gets out, you can send it here:


Meghan Fausset
5707 Rt 219
Brockport PA 15823


Other than that, I don't have much more of an update.  From what I have been told, the doctor seemed pleased with how the surgery went.  I did some quick research this morning on things to watch out for post op for the surgery, which was a little discouraging.  Keep your spirits up by not Googling that.  Good news is that similar surgeries are used for other digestive problems as well (like Crohns disease) so it is pretty common, but it is also pretty common not to get back to "normal" for months or years.  Based on Matt's report though, it looks like things are looking pretty good for Meg.


-Kalen