Cath Day

Today is cath day. We are at Children's Hospital awaiting the start of Clare's catheterization. My mom is currently walking Clare around the floor because she is quite fussy from not eating for 6+ hours now. Clare is second case today, which means that we have to wait for the first patient's cath to end before they come to take Clare. Unfortunately, that is at no set time. It could be in 5 minutes, it could be 2 hours from now. The doctors have to assume the earliest, so Clare was cut off from food at 3am. Hopefully she will be brought in soon because our little girl is very grumpy!

Clare has "graduated" in many ways at the hospital. Being second case means she is one of the older children scheduled for a cath. She gets an actual crib bed now (not the infant bed anymore), since most kids her age are crawling and pulling up. (So the bed comes with side rails that can be pulled up quite high and a tent on top for those who are climbers.) Clare made that crib her home last night. She had toys and blankets scattered all over the place and scooted herself around the bed. When I woke up this morning, she was curled all the way at the top of the bed sound asleep against the pillow I propped up there so she would stop hitting her head on the bars. She was so sweet and peaceful.

Clare also discovered this trip that leads, O2 monitors, blood pressure cuffs, and IV lines are all great toys. She has chewed, sucked, pulled, and banged on all of them. The blood pressure cuff makes a terrific noise when banged against the side of the metal railing. She sat in the bed for about 30 minutes yesterday just playing with her wires. It was very cute!

It's hard to believe it's been 4 months since we've been here. We have made ourselves at home again. Hopefully this will only be "home" until tomorrow. We will keep the blog updated as the day progresses.

Thank you for all the prayers!