Well, yes we are home and so glad to be but I can not exactly say it has been easy. After running around like a mad woman to make dinner (thank you for helping with the soup Debbie and challah Rana). We had a wonderful fun dinner together. Just the four of us. It was so nice to sit and talk and kibbitz. A typical Friday night where mommy was falling asleep at the table before dinner was done. Well it didn't agree so much with Daniel, because by 9:00 he had thrown it all up and he was apologizing to me and was very upset with himself. Darn. All that work for nothing. Well at least we were together. A little t.v. watching of some well missed NFL network and it was off to a good night sleep in our own beds. Daniel slept well but me not a wink. I can't explain why. You would have thought I would have slept like a log, but I could not rest. Maybe because I was more than three feet from Daniel for the first time in 5 weeks. I don't know. I must have checked on him 50 times. Like when they were newborns. He slept soundly. Unfortunately, 8:30 in the morning Daniel was up vomiting again, but this time it lasted until about 1pm. Rob was at the pharmacy 3 times and although we had a home health care nurse come to the house for our first visit we did not have to go back to the hospital. It is almost 3:00 now and he hasn't been out of bed yet but he isn't totally dehydrated yet and at 2:00 was finally able to keep down his morning medicine with a sip of liquid. Oy, I hope the whole weekend isn't like this. I was hoping for relaxing at home but so far I have bleached every surface of the house as well as the hot tub (just in case we get a chance-wishful thinking). Unpacked 5 weeks of hospital gear (I am totally lying-I haven't done any of it yet) and I lost count how many loads of dishes and laundry. Rob just asked me what that smell was in the living room? I said that was what clean smells like. Hmmm. I need a nap and my back is killing me. I never thought I would say this, but it was easier being at the hospital. But Rob has done a great job with Matthew and Chewy the past five weeks in the house with a lot of running around to keep us going at the hospital. Many things are still in the exact same place they were five weeks ago where I left them and I guess that is comforting (I guess?). At least you know YOU CAN ALWAYS COME HOME.
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Marla Cohen
7/13/2014 03:53:26 am
Welcome HOME! Get all the kinks out now and hopefully the rest of the week will be more relaxing. Nadine, just like a newborn, sometimes the hospital is easier because you have the additional help from the hospital, but then you get into your new routine at home, and then things are easier. Hang in there! Let me know if we can do ANYTHING. Love and prayers -- Marla and the Cohen gang
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