Ok, so where did we leave off? I believe we're on Monday now, which was our original hopeful day of getting to go home! Well, this didn't happen. They decided that they wanted you on IV antibiotics rather than oral antibiotics so they scheduled to have a PICC line put in your arm.
And to go w/the theme of this little adventure, this did NOT go well! At about 12:30 they took you and I to the procedure room and then put you to sleep with this milky white medication, I don't remember the name of it but it wasn't general anesthisia. I then went back to our hospital room to wait for you. The nurse and doctor told me it'd be 1/2 hour to 1 hour and then they would be done. Well about 2 hours into it they called me and said they were unable to get the PICC line in your arm and asked if it was okay if they did a central line. (The difference between a PICC line and a Central line is basically placement I believe. A PICC line goes in through a vein that connects to the vein above your heart, such as through the arm or leg. A Central line goes directly into the vein near your heart.) I wasn't sure then what the difference was and asked a few questions then told them they should know best so go for it. This still took about another hour, they had trouble getting the Central line in as well. So finally! I was able to go back to the room to see you. You were a bit groggy but as soon as you were fully awake you just wanted a bottle and to play!
From this point on it became a bit harder for you to stay entertained, finally I just put a blanket down on the floor in your room so you could play down there with plenty of room to roam around. There wasn't much else that went on Monday, we were just anxious to get to go home Tuesday since so far all your blood cultures hadn't come back positive.
Well on Tuesday we were hoping to get to go home early afternoon. Well of course, this didn't happen. With your central line the hopsital was trying to get our insurance to approve Home IV Therapy. They had told me Monday there wouldn't be a problem and they'd be able to get the insurance to approve it. Well at about 5 Tuesday night they finally admitted they probably wouldn't get it approved and asked if we'd be willing to stay one more night while they continued to work with the insurance. I said NO, we want to go HOME! I let the gal know that they can call me with any questions and we can just come back to the hospital so you can get your antibiotic. She agreed to this so we started packing everything up and finally got home about 7 that night. It was such a relief to be home!
Well, for the next 3 weeks we made the trip to the hospital every day so you could get your antibiotic through your central line. They had a playroom so we usually just played in there. The antibiotic was Rocephin, it took a 1/2 hour to go through the IV, so we were usually at the hospital anywhere from 1 to 2 hours. This depended on who the nurse was that day. Our favorite was a nurse named Ellie who was always ready for us when we got there so it never took very long with her. Other nurses wouldn't order the medicine until we were there and it could take an hour just to get the medication up to our floor!
Well on August 9th it was finally the day to get your central line out! I had to work so Grammy took you to get your last does of antibiotic and your central line out. You did great with everything and then were free! We were super excited because during all this time we hadn't been able to go swimming. SO on Sat Aug 10th it was our Ward Swim Party so after 3 weeks of not being able to get real good and wet we had a fun pool party w/all of our Ward Friends :)
I'm so glad that even though there seemed to be a lot of complications during the hospital stay, we were able to get you feeling better and healthy again!
You are such a sweet angel and always so good-natured and I'm very glad this experience did not change your sweet spirit at all.
I love you, princess
Love Mommy :)
