Day 3

Another day down, and hopefully tonight will be the last night.  Last night was another rough night at the hospital (no surprise, huh).  I think I made the nurse feel super bad.  We have the same nurse again tonight and she made sure to go over the schedule with me and ask if it was ok and when would be the best times.  I really did shoot her a dirty look at 4 o'clock this morning, though.  I sort of feel bad for it, but not entirely.  She was just doing her job, but she's the "nurse nazi" in my book.  She does her job right down to the letter which can get obnoxious.  Finn actually was doing ok until she had to come in to check his vitals and start an IV line at 4.  She decided not to do the checks that she knew would wake him up (blood pressure, temperature, and maybe another) but he ended up waking up anyway when she hooked up his IV.  So while he's screaming she says, "Well, I might as well take his temperature."  You're kidding, right?  So, not cool.

Anyway, we got off to a bad foot, but for the most part Finn has had a good day.  Our mornings are a bit more busy with RT appointments, IV lines, and seeing the rounding docs, and then our afternoons tend to be more slow.  We just had a couple of blood draws, one IV, and an RT appointment.  So, we ended up taking a good 5 trips outside today and on one of them we even had visitors.  Our RS president and her daughter (the boys' babysitter) brought Kai up to visit.  When they arrived Finn was walking in a direction away from where they were coming from.  I told him to stop and turn around, which he did not want to do.  Then I told him that Kai was behind him.  He stopped pulling his wagon, dropped the handle and turned around.  He watched as Megan and Sister Horton approached with Kai in a wagon and his jaw hit the ground.  It was so cute!  Once Kai got close enough that Finn was sure it was him, Finn broke into a run to meet his brother.  Serious kodak moment.....except I didn't even get my camera out today.

I'm hoping that we get some good sleep tonight and that the culture results come back ASAP tomorrow.  I know Finn's doctor wanted him to leave without a cough, but it seems that the bronchoscopy stirred some stuff up because he has been having good coughs all weekend.  They aren't super frequent, but he is coughing up stuff.  We've also been doing Hyper-tonic saline treatments while we've been here and that is making him cough more, too.  I'm hoping she's ok letting him go with a cough because the poor kid talked about seeing his brother again all the way until he feel asleep.  I told him we would be home tomorrow and I hope no one makes me break that promise!