The Patient

Running the halls:

Pushing elevator buttons:
and escaping to the outdoors to enjoy this beautiful day:

The orthopedic and pediatric doctors came by this morning, and we all decided to stick it out here one more night. She's doing great, her counts are getting back to normal, and she's in good spirits! So we'll hopefully head home tomorrow morning, be on oral antibiotics for two weeks, check in with the doctors several times a week, and should be back to normal asap. Nothing is showing in the cultures yet so this was probably something viral (like the colds she's had this last month or two) that for whatever reason stuck around in her shoulder causing an infection. They're running all kinds of tests on her blood for random things to check it all out. Pretty crazy sounding, but we're thankful that the antibiotics are knocking it out!

She discovered the fish tank and the playroom yesterday and is having a ball -- good thing as we were stuck in there for several hours last night during the tornado warnings! Thanks again for thinking of us!


Funny conversations we've had:

Middle of the night, she sits up in bed (I'm sleeping with her), and hollers, "Alex! Alex!" She looks all over the room for Alex, I assure her he's asleep on the fancy fold out vinyl chair, and she lays back down to sleep.

Today I asked her, "Do you want to go home?" She says, "No, I go playroom!"

She opened up my cell phone and said, "Hello! Aubie, come see me!"


She's the best little patient ever!