Saturday morning Brad went and picked the kids up to spend a few hours with us at the hospital. Ashlyn and Tanner think hospitals are pretty cool. There is a fun toy room to play in, they get to eat in a cafeteria and pick whatever they want to eat... they have felt more like they were on vacation this week than anything! They were starting to ask when they could sleep in their own beds though.
One of the afternoons when Logan was in the PICU (the days have all run together) Brad and I took the kids to Build-a-Bear. This is something our kids have been asking to do for a long time, but we have never wanted to spend the money. We understood how hard this had to be on them being juggled around from place to place, not seeing mom and dad for days, and having their brother in the hospital. So it was fun to take them there and let them pick out an animal. While we were there they wanted to get one for Logan too. They picked this monkey... We laugh because we had Logan's room done in Monkey's before he was born and his hair reminds us so much of monkey's it is so fitting! We put one of those voice recorders in the monkey of Ashlyn and Tanner telling Logan how much they love him. It is precious.
Here Ashlyn is giving him the monkey.
The Monkey is as big as he is... maybe even bigger!
Like I said hospitals are fun... they made silly puddy in the play room with the volunteers.
The free slushies they had on our floor were also a big draw for the kids!
Logan finally looking relaxed and not so uncomfortable. (And no oxygen- yeah!)
Saturday night my mom came up to hang out with Logan so Brad and I could get some dinner. If she could she would hold him all day long! And Brad and I got to venture out from the Primary Children's Cafeteria all the way to the University of Utah Hospital Cafeteria... we know how to live big!
This is how Brad and Logan hang out!
Saturday night I was on my own. Brad went home so the kids could sleep in their own beds. They did the car seat check with Logan and he passed with flying colors.
Doesn't that look like a kid ready to go home!
Brad was back up to the hospital early Sunday morning so he could be there when the doctors came to do their rounds. They said Logan was ready to go home. So they took his bandage off and unhooked everything. It was so nice to hold my baby without all the attachements!
A picture of his monitor right before they unhooked everything.
The top number 127 is his heart rate, 47 is his breaths per minute, and the 97 is his oxygen saturation.
It was a little overwhelming getting all his discharge information and making sure we had all his medications and understood the dosage. He came home just on tylenol for pain... what a tough kid! And then he is on Lasix a diuretic and Aldactone which is a potassium supplement. AMAZING how fast little babies bodies can recover. In all the stress of getting everything before we left we didn't even take any pictures leaving the hospital. I was glad to be leaving, but nervous to leave the care of the wonderful nurses we had helping us 24/7. Now it was all up to me. Before they would let Logan leave the PICU Brad and I both had to pass off infant CPR. I have never paid such close attention in a CPR class and never practiced so much... it makes things a little sureal. We are home now, and figuring out how to live with a little bit of "normalcy."
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He looks so good! Braden great granny brought him a build a bear when he was born and each hospital stay he came with us. He even has scrubs and a stethascope. Take a picture of Logan every month with his monkey- it's fun to watch them grow. It's took Braden eons till he was finally bigger than it.
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