Things have been going pretty well today. Rubin went for over 12 hours without any pain medication, so the steroids are obviously working. He has progressed to a full liquid diet and has added cream of potato soup and ice cream to the other things he was eating. Since switching to those, he has started to have a little more pain, but the nurses say that is normal because the area is still inflamed - it's getting better but not healed yet. They are still saying that he can probably go home tomorrow. He is determined for that to happen, so I hope they don't change anything and decide he needs one more day. Thank you all so much for the prayers - they are obviously working because we weren't planning on him getting to come home until Monday or Tuesday! It looks like he might even get to have turkey on Thanksgiving now! I will update tomorrow once we know something - they don't have a time frame yet for when the doctor will be by to decide if he gets released or not but we are hoping for late morning/early afternoon.