Aug
24
2011
Wednesday August 24, 7:00 AM
I'm starting to get tired. In fact I had snuggled into the reclining chair next to Lilees PICU and had dozed off at about midnight. I was only asleep for 40 minutes or so when I heard someone calling my name. When I realized it wasn't a dream and opened my eyes this is what I saw:
For the next 7 hours Lilee would wake up every 30 or 40 minutes, call my name to wake me up, wait for me to come to the crib, throw up in a bowl, allow me to clean her up and then lay back down and rest until she did it again. I don't mind taking care of my daughter one bit but it did kind of tick me off a little that my PICU nurse who had one patient was not watching to see any of this happen all night long. She would come in right after I had cleaned everything up. We might as well have been on the regular Pediatric floor where the nurses have 3 to 4 patients. In any case we made it through the night and today should be a good day as far as progress.