Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Another night in the hospital
Hope and I were sitting on the couch watching a movie and Hope was practically on top of me because there was a moth in our room. I looked over and her pump looked huge. I took off the binder to find a blood soaked bandage. I wrapped her back up and called my mom to sit with her while I paged the doctor. The mean moth was going to eat her up if I left her alone. We flew into the hospital (she was happy because we weren't in the room with the moth) and our neurosurgeon met us in the ER waiting room. Such a wonderful man. While we were checking in he had the nurses get everything ready to tap and drain her pump area. He took the bandage off to get a good look at it and Hope was crying her eyes out asking to have a bandage put back on. The doctor wasn't even touching it and she was in distress. As soon as he put a bandage back on, she was totally calm. Such a stink pot! We ended up not having to have it drained. He admitted us under a 23 hour watch to see what was going on. She was flat all night and raised up to 30 degrees really early this morning since there was no new drainage. Then a few hours later was able to get out of bed and sit up all the way. She pushed herself through the length of the hospital in her wheelchair and did a craft in the child life toy room. We went back to the room and no new drainage. We are now home! The doctor figures it was a scab that broke open. We are getting the staples out on Thursday now instead of Wednesday to give it an extra day. Her spirits are good, as always. Thanks everyone for the prayers and support! Hopefully we won't have any more scares!
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