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One For All2

Today is the last of Dorrie’s due dates, so there is no question over whether or not she’s one now.

She’s feeling a bit under the weather today, I think, but it’s hard to know exactly why. On Friday, we went up to the hospital so she could get new ear tubes placed for the winter. She also got an MRI, mostly to look at her ears, but Dr. Optimist figured if she was going in for that we may as well look at everything. And on top of that she also got her flu shot and her first round of Synagis.

The appointments were all rather late in the day, so we were worried that we were going to have to spend the night. I admit, I was freaking out about it; because of her respiratory status, she automatically goes to PICU where there’s a respiratory therapist always on the floor. Even though we’d been home from there for six months, I still feel myself tense up when I think about going back.

Fortunately, our visit to PICU was short. She was brought back still out from the sedative, but it was short acting and she had no anesthesia hangover like she’s had in the past. After a couple hours, Bob and I felt comfortable packing her up and heading home. We didn’t get home until about 10pm but I was so relieved to not have to spend the night at the hospital that I didn’t care. Our usual paranoid precautions ensued: Dorrie got a bath, we changed her ventilator circuit, and then both of us took showers too. No hospital germs can dare linger here!

It was midnight before we got to bed, but it wasn’t a bad night all the same.

Posted by mom, under hospital crack, moving forward... or not, our little witch, trying to stay healthy