Plodding along. going through motions. hoping i don’t leave one of the 74 steps to proper IV infusion out or get them out of order and hep lock the IV off before i’ve saline flushed it. cereal for the girls, multiple clothing changes for kaylen, lunches made for kealey, paperwork signed for school, and insurance …
Wow – Friday night was brutal. It was like having a newborn, except you didn’t just have to get up and feed the newborn four times, you had to get up and perform semi-complex medical procedures, carefully mix the food, and THEN feed the newborn. I can’t complain, truly. Ben took ALL the feedings and …
(and here is where you all have the synthesized bridge of this song running through your head…) We are on final countdown notice for discharge. Gathering final paperwork and signatures, booking ben and my appointments to have our kidneys harvested to pay for this stay, gathering all the medical supplies laying around the room up …
And head out!!! (hey, the humor’s free around here – take what you can get!) Anyhoo. Biggest news of today – Dr. A thinks he will write discharge order for Kendall tomorrow morning! All teams have made final reports and they all are pretty much blaming nutrition/GI for the root of all her problems, so …
It is odd to me that in seven years I have come full circle. Seven years ago tomorrow I entered the hospital, really for the first time in my life (except for the random ER visit), as a single entity. And tomorrow, seven years later, I will be {hopefully} taking home my fourth bundle of …
