We're HOME!

PRAISE THE LORD. We are home now and Molly is doing great. After the long, drawn out, exhausting few days in the hospital, we are home! We were there from Monday night until last night around 11:30pm. We could have opted to stay in the hospital one more night but Molly and I were both SO ready to come home! We didn’t care what time it was. They had to have a full 48 hours to run their series of tests on her to rule out anything and everything major. Fortunately, all of the tests came back negative. She simply had the same virus that Mikie had over the weekend, and wouldn’t you know, Tuesday night Jack came down with it too. He had a high temp even in the night last night poor little dude - so he's missing preschool today :(.

So Erk was Dr. Dad here at home with fevers and puking and I was at the hospital night and day (besides coming home on Tuesday for a little nap). We are so thankful – thank you to all of you who called me, I was so touched by all of the care and concern and genuine heartfelt offers to help in any way you could. WOW, we are so blessed! Thank you too to all who came up to visit us at the hospital, it sure did break up our stay!

I’m not going to lie, I was just plain whipped when we got home last night. But between the beeping machines all day/night, them coming to check her constantly and her bawling her eyes out cause she was so tired of being poked and prodded, it was worth the extra energy and all to come home last night. The night staff at the hospital was top notch, very considerate and kind. The day staff? By the afternoon yesterday I was practically dropping “f” bombs out of frustration for their lack of COMMON SENSE. I swear during the day you have a bunch of young nurses who just stand around and laugh and chat it up all day. There were times where our machines were beeping cause Molly had moved her position in the tiny plastic bed they had her in, or I had moved her to hold her – and it took forever for anyone to come shut the alarms off. One of the machines had 2 flatlines on it for nearly 2 hours cause the electrodes had fallen off her chest and I just sat there wondering how long it would take for someone to notice. Umm, I’m thinking they need to keep on top of that stuff? They would come hit the “hold” button on the IV machine cause it was beeping abnoxiously, and then they would leave the room and it would start up again. The kicker was when I left the room at 7pm to QUICKLY grab a bite in the cafeteria to bring back upstairs to the room. There were 2 nurses in checking Molly over and I told them I was going to slip out and would be right back. So I wasn’t even gone 5 minutes and I come back to Molly screaming her head off all alone in the room with no blanket on cause she had kicked it off. I was PISSED. So frustrated that when the next nurse came in (the only super one all day), I told her I was really irritated. Granted, I am sleep deprived so I felt bad for going off on her about the other staff, but she said she truly appreciated my telling her and she was saying in this world now a days, people lack compassion and common sense. Doesn’t that just sum it up? I was so glad I talked to her and she told me she’d be praying for me and lil’ Molly…

Whew, I just went on and on! I just wanted to say again how thankful we are to the Lord for healing little Molly and all being well. And thank you to all of you for the prayers and concerns and goodies! Take care all!