Nov 21, The Feeding Tube drama

Started the day out with Lindsey throwing up her medicine.  She felt good after she threw up, but the feeding tube came flying out. Linds was NOT happy about that.  We told her she gets a day off from the tube, but tonight it had to go back in.  She has been dreading that all day. 

So now it is 11:35 pm, it took 3 attempts to get it in, and now they are doing a x-ray to see if it is placed in the right spot.  It did NOT go well.  Lots of screaming and gagging.  They did give her some ativan to relax her, but all it has done is make her speech slurred, and a glaze in her eye.  The nurses are thinking they will need to take it out because it didn't go in the right place, but the x-ray will tell.  It's going to be ugly if we have to go for try #4. 

Dale, Leslie, Garrity, Seth, Ayla, and Keana arrived around 4:30 pm.  We are all very excited to see them. Tonight Garrity and Seth are staying at the RMH with the kiddos while Stacy AND I are staying here with our Princess.  Not exactly a hotel suite for our first night together in months, but hey, I'll take it :)   My Mom and Dad are staying at Barbara Alhouse's place, a condo close to the hospital.

I guess Kylara was discharged today, hope it goes well for her. Shawn and Trista will be here for a while.  They will be joining us for Thanksgiving tomorrow. 

Thank you for your great comments and great ideas about the walk policy.  The Doctors really do want her to go for longer walks.  They see the mental and emotional benefits of the extended walks.  They just need to get the policy in place before she ventures to another hospital (Stanford side).  As it stands, if there was a problem on the Stanford side, they would have to call 911, with the ambulance, fire department, and emergency rooms involved, even if it was something minor (like what, I don't know).

It is amazing what a strength Ruth Friebose is to our family.  If she can be home, so can Linds.

 Kylara and the kids earlier today, before being discharged.

 Art the Clown, ( a retired dentist from San Jose) entertaining the kids.

 Hunters new trick

Lindsey with no feeding tube and NO IV. They took the IV out and it does NOT need to be replaced. After this picture the drama started. It was not fun, but she was a trooper and stuck with it. We are still waiting to here back from x-ray on the tube placement.