Monday, February 9, 2009

A Much Better Day

It's 5:00am, I get a nudge from the nurse, expecting to be covered with a lead blanket for Audrey's x-ray, instead was told that they were moving us to a regular room in about 10 minutes.  Julie was asleep in a room they gave us for the night, so I asked for the phone number for that room.  They gave it to me. A very sleepy voice female answered, and I told her they were moving to the 6th floor.  A more awake voice responded, "We're moving to the 6th floor?"  I realized that his was not my wife.  I explained how they had given me the wrong number, but somehow, I don't think she was blaming the nurse near as much as I was.  

30 minutes later, after getting the right phone number and gathering our stuff, we were in the room.  Even though we felt evacuated, the rest of the day was great.  Audrey got a bath and got to put on PJ's.  She sat up a lot, was held a lot and even got to go for a wagon ride around the hospital.

She's still got a chest tube in draining fluid from around her lung.  We're waiting to hear from the doctors to find out if that can come out today.  Our feeling is that we'll be here 1 day after that tube comes out, but that's just our guess.  We'll know more hopefully soon.


7 comments:

janiece said...

Yeah!!! Sound like positive news!

Karen said...

Saying prayers of praise and gratitude for Audrey's continued progress!

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear things are progressing smoothly! Hopefully Audrey will be out soon. I'll continue to pray for her healing (and mood - being a kid stuck in the hospital can't be any fun!). Hope you all are getting the rest you need as well. :-)

Holly said...

Hooray!
How do you stand it?
The cuteness factor this girl's got?
Man!
Praying you're all home soon!

LarryD said...

WOO HOO!! We are so glad to here she is doing so well!! We will keep praying!

Tracie said...

What a precious girl! Congrats on the evacuation! God is so good!


In Him,
Tracie and Dave

Anonymous said...

I love this picture- you know, chillin' out, legs propped up. She is so cute!