Thursday 3-22-07

Grace was transferred to the step-down unit on Tuesday afternoon. It took a little while for us to get use to our new environment. Are new nurses are great but after being with the other ones for so long I think Grace and I are both experiencing a bit of separation anxiety. We are in a "bay" with two other patients and we are use to being in our own room so it has been hard getting use to it. The other two kids in there are much older, they both like to watch TV at the same time and they both have to turn up the volume to be able to hear there movie over the other one. I had the worst headache yesterday and Gracie has not been sleeping as well over there either. She will eventually be coming home to her three older siblings so I suppose she should get use to a loud environment with chaos. Another change we are getting use to is that they now want Dave and I to handle most of her care. I had to give her and injection in her leg last night, It didn't go so well and the nurse had to do it over :( I think i cried more than Gracie. She is almost completely off of the oxygen and tolerating her feeds well so if all goes well we should get to come home when she finishes her antibiotics. I have heard this could be April 6, 9, or 12 so we will just have to wait and see. Now it looks like we may skip going to Kaiser and stay here until we go home. I am learning it just depends on who you talk to, so we will just have to wait and see.