Day Ten- Intuitive Care??

To be honest, not much happened today but here is a brief.

Melissa, Jack and I talked to the sub-Conclave about Amelia’s impending homecoming. Well, I suppose Jack was more of a passive participant in the discussion.

To be honest, we are a little worried about Amelia coming home too early. Her vitals have steadily improved, but occasionally she still has bradycardia and shows decreased SAT. The nurse’s response to this has become rather concerning. Just today, the nurse simply turned the monitor off and told us to develop and rely on more of an intuitive sense of her medical status and condition! I laughed out loud and I think that this response sort of offended her. Within 30 minutes, the Nurse Practitioner was down to the room for a discussion.

The end result of this little meeting was that Amelia’s homecoming has been pushed off from potentially tomorrow (Friday) to sometime into middle or late next week. In exchange for this concession, I am probably going to be spend both nights this weekend at Sick Kids sleeping on Amelia’s couch. Imagine that…my 2 month old is putting me up for the night. I am going to nursing bootcamp.

Spending the day at the hospital is becoming pretty boring. Last week at this time, I spent alot of time pacing and hand-holding, but now Melissa and I just sit around in Amelia’s room and watch her sleep. Sure, things get pretty crazy when its diaper changing time, but really I seem to be spending much of my time watching TV.

I watched the Beachcombers today…I haven’t seen that in a long time, (that Robert ‘Relic’ Clothier is a national treasure). During my next visit, I’m going to watch the Sick Kids surveillance camera. Im sure that will be television at its finest.