Well, it's 11:00 on Thursday night and ... We're home! What a great feeling.
Roo slept AWESOME last night in the PICU. He went to bed at 11:30pm and slept straight through 'til 5:00am. Then he woke up and the night nurse fed him 4 ounces of pumped milk from the fridge (I slept in a "sleep room," a very thoughtful gesture they provide for parents of kids in the PICU). Then he went back to sleep until 8:00am, so he had a great night of sleep. He was so completely wiped out, I'm sure that he really needed that sleep! (And so did I!...we both slept well.) :-)
We packed up our belongings and said thank you to all the awesome nurses and doctors who helped us over the past two days. And, by 1:30, we were home again. What an unbelievable, even surreal, couple of days.
Still, Roo has a mild cough. We're just going to see him get better and better every day. Unfortunately, Mike is now sick. He may have picked up what Roo had (RSV in older kids and adults is just a plain old cold, nothing nearly as serious) or maybe he picked up some other germ at the hospital. The gunk is just going around this time of year. He's been quarantined to the upstairs and Merrit, Ollie, and I are staying downstairs for now. So, say a prayer for Mike please, that he feels better soon!
After all, this coming Sunday (February 3) is our 12-year anniversary! (Two years ago, we were on the beaches of Cancun right about now...now THAT'S just torture to think about after the couple of days we've just lived through!)
Thank you all again for the prayers and support. Thank you, Melissa, for watching Merrit these last couple days. Thank you, Ann, for sending dinner to our house tonight. Thank you, Angela, for picking us up from the hospital since Mike was sick. Thank you, Janet, for keeping Angela's boy so she could come get us. Thank you to our families and friends who called us so often to check in and find out how Roo was doing. Thank you to everyone who prayed! The list goes on and on! We love you guys and appreciate all the help!
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Mike and Mir, I'm so glad that Ollie is home and one the mend. You have been in my thoughts and prayers.
Love, Donna
Our God IS an awesome God!!! He is so good to us!
Ya know what I think....Ollie didn't want Merrit to be the only one with a big "infant" story! Now he has his very own!!;-)
Praying Mike gets healthy quickly!!!
Love ya!
Melissa
Your welcome girl. You know how much your family means to us. In fact Judah was just talking about his April birthday party and wanted to know if Merrit could come. Too funny.
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