The Oosting Family: Headed Home?

Morning rounds are a double edged sword!

It's fascinating to see 15 brilliant MD's, NP's, RN's and residents stand outside your child's room and talk about her.

But then there's this fear of what will be discussed and you basically hold your breath for the next 20 minutes while you stand (in the same circle as the brilliant people) and wait for some cue - positive or negative.

Yesterday Dr Haw winked at me... Today he said the words "if today goes well you could be taking her home tomorrow or Sunday."

We planned on being in the hospital till at least Christmas so you can imagine my surprise. My wheels were already turning with... Must get house cleaned, must install car seat, must rearrange nursery...

About as quickly as he said that we discovered her incision starting to look a little oozie. They did a swab of the area and now we wait on the culture results. Worse case scenerio is that they make a little incision and install a vaccume that sucks out the infection, next best scenerio is that she needs an antibiotic, and best case scenerio is that nothing grows and nothing needs to be done.

We also did another trial off the oxygen and Piper yet again showed she continues to need it!! Tomorrow someone is coming to give us tips, tricks and techniques in relation to how to get her to remember to eat and breath at the same time.

Pair the above two things with a fussy baby and you get a stressed out first time mom. Our nurse joked about letting me lick Piper's pain med syringe after he was done dosing her with it!! I told him they need to start serving daiquiri's!!

It's amazing how God gives you what you need when you need it. I was crying and went to Facebook as a distraction. And what do I have but a message from Bennet's mom, Nicole. Bennet, if you recall, is Piper's transposition buddy and now soul mate.

The message went as follows...