Can We Go Home Now?

Last night, upon returning to the room, I was greeted by an awake Jill. She had just had another shivering bout and a temperature spike. After a fairly good night's sleep, Jill was checked out by her swarm of doctors and was started on a new antibiotic.

Not too much later, she had another shiver attack and spiked a fever. After that, Jill asked, "Can we go home now?". I have never given serious thought to signing anyone out of the hospital, until today.

In the midst of our low, Linda, Reg, and Marcy showed up to brighten the day. After visiting for a bit, Jill decided that it was time to wash the two rounds of sweat away. Since she needed some help, we both got clean (instead of thinking of us naked at this point, try focusing on pink elephants in stead) while the rest of the Southerton clan went to go see Cade who was doing quite well the day after his surgery.

On a side note, I owe Lind and Reg some dough for dog food, cat litter, window glass, etc. I keep forgetting to give it to them. Sorry. The check will be in the mail on Monday. And, thanks for being there for us.

On the bright side of things, this new antibiotic SHOULD making Jill start to feel better by Monday morning.

With hope in their hearts that Jill would start feeling better, Linda and Reg headed back to Proctor.

Tonight was pretty cool because Dad, Andy, Jill, and Sue all made it down. We went out for dinner at a Chinese place in Dinky Town. Truth be told, it was nice to get out of the hospital. It would have been nicer yet if Jill would have been well enough to go along. I am thinking that we will need a night out on the town after all of this is said and done.

After dinner, we all went up to see Jill and say "Hi". After that, we all went down to see Cade. Since it was after 9 p.m., we had to ask for the rules to be bent to allow non-immediate family in to see him. The nurse attending to Cade made an exception which was cool. It made me happy to see Grandma and how amazed she was at how little Cade is. She said something like, "I sure hope that The Good Lord is looking out for him." I hope so too.

After that, we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.

For the rest of the evening, Jill dozed while I watched stuff about Alaska on Discovery. She seems to be looking much better. Maybe tomorrow, she will really start feeling better and we can do some walking and pumping.

As I write this, Cade is making the little red light that lets the nurses know that one of the parameters is out of range go off. If it goes off at all, it is not to my liking. But, tonight he has been quite agitated and antsy. In total though, he has been pretty stable with reduced dopamine requirements. The only issue tonight seems to be O2/vent related.

Goodnight,

Sean

Oh yeah, pics!