Going Home....

Well, today is supposed to be our last day here at Dell Children's.  Reagan will receive her last dose of i.v. antibiotics at 5pm today and then we will be discharged.  She will unfortunatley have to have oral antibiotics at home for another 2 weeks but at least it will be at home.  Other than starting the i.v. the first night, I think Reagan has enjoyed her time here.  Seeing that she feels fine and all, we have gotten out of the room many times to go on wagon rides (her i.v. is in her foot so she hasn't been able to walk since Thur. night). 

getting all settled in Thurs. night before getting her i.v.

hanging out by the waterfall with my new crown

checking out all the water features here at Dell

enjoying her food trays

Yummy Cream Cheese & bagels

giving herself a breathing treatment

having a sucker party

finally, relaxing & watching her favorite movie, Toy Story

I'm not even sure if her blood culture that grew salmonella was real or not but the infectious disease dr. did say she had one other child that this happened too and they treated her the same way as Reagan and she was fine.  I'm thankful Reagan's team of caretakers heir on the side of safety for her because we would not have wanted the salmonella to spread and make her really sick.  I was able to retreat home Friday to go to a doctors appt. myself and spend some one on one time with Nolan.  I tried to get him to go to a movie with me and out to eat but he preferred Chuck E. Cheese instead so that's where we spent our date night. 

Mimi & PawPaw stayed with Reagan Friday night and then I relieved them on Saturday.  Thank you so much for helping out.  Also, thanks to Warren & Lori Kostencski for having Nolan spend the weekend with them so I could come back to the hospital on Sat.  I'm sure Nolan had much more fun with your boys than he would have in the hospital.  Thank you so much!!! 
Well, Reagan has her follow-up appts with cardiology and hematology on Tues.  The cardiologist will probably do an echo and check on the blood clot and then the hematologist will do a lab draw to check Reagan's lovenox levels and discuss how long of a course of these shots she will have to do.  Hopefully, a shorter than longer course as she is bruised all over from the shots and has only been on them a week now. 
Lastly, when we were in the hospital in California, we met the LaPointe family- baby Arden's parents.  Reagan fell in love with Arden and played with her big brother Elliot at Ronald McDonald House. 

Arden LaPointe

Arden has spent the majority of the time in the hospital since her birth with only a short period of time at home.  Please pray that the doctors can decide the best treatment for her heart so that she can be able to go home with her family.