Today was discharge day!!!
We made our triumphant way out of the hospital at about 4:30pm. Everly donned her mask and hauled her pink owl suitcase all the way to the parkade, waving and saying bye to everyone she passed by.
Today was no easy peasy discharge day – I had to finger poke her in the morning, and she still hates that. Her INR came out to 1.1, so we couldn’t take the blood test from her IJ that was still in her neck because her INR needed to be 1.5 for that. And because her number was so low (supposed to be 2.0-3.0) she needed a ‘bridge’ dose of Tinzaparin, which is a needle. Not good.
Then she had a bit of a break before her IJ in her neck was removed, and THAT was quite a production. First the mass of tape needed to be removed, then the stitches holding it in needed snipped and taken out. It took so long I experienced a range of emotions. From sympathy, to frustration, to exasperation, to sadness and madness. Everly experienced only terror and anger. She banished everyone out of the room when it was done, and told us to leave her alone already!! Luckily she once again forgave me, but it took a couple minutes. She even forgave Dr. Scott later too.
After that she had a little break again, and the flu shot came for her. It went better than expected, better than her finger pokes actually. Now she’s slaying the flu dragon we saw on a poster at the Stollery.
And as if the IJ removal wasn’t terrorizing enough, her pressure bandage was falling off, so it had to be taken off and replaced. Much to her surprise, she didn’t cry! She actually said it wasn’t too bad.
And after a few nurse and doctor chats we were finally let out. We will follow up with our cardiologist in 3 weeks, our pediatrician in 1-2 weeks, and Kid Clot tomorrow. And at Kid Clot tomorrow she will get two finger pokes into two different machines to make sure ours is accurate (they almost always are), then if her INR is over 1.5 she will get a blood test at the lab to make sure everything is the same. Should be a fun day 😬 and if she’s not over 1.5 we will likely repeat all of that on Friday too…
So we are staying two more nights at the Ronald McDonald House, then home just in time for a Covid friendly Halloween (maybe 2 houses and hanging out at grandmas). And I remember when she had her Glenn at six months old we were home just in time for Christmas.
P.S. I feel like a silly billy because I totally forgot to take any pictures today except the one below 🙄
Speeding away from 4C!
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