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1) The surgery had no complications, and Rachal's left arm is now in a sling (so she doesn't raise it above her shoulder for the next month, lest she dislodge the two pacemaker leads).

2) Rachal's grown progressively less psychotic since the hospital started her back on Abilify. She went from seeing only a few unrealistic things yesterday to seeing none at all today. It's more likely than not that she'll be going straight home after being discharged from Baylor, rather than making a side trip to one of D/FW's fine (*cough*) psychiatric hospitals.

3) Rachal is feeling no more muscle pain from the (presumed) cholesterol drug side effects. Basically, although she just had surgery this morning, she feels better than she has in a couple of months.

The overdose that put her in the hospital may have turned out to be a good thing, since she seems to have done no physical damage with it ...and it brought her heart problem to the doctors' attention.