Day 2 Review

Day 2 quick overview: yesterday wasn't anything new. It was a rough night sleeping. We have a room very well located by the food room, nurses station, and the main doors to get into our wing..... I hope you can read the sarcasm because we hear everything.

I bought a small loud fan at least and that helps, especially just blowing some air into my corner by the window where I'm camping at but of course I sleep on my back and during the night I've been getting phone calls from tessa to stop snoring. This all happened again last night even with the nurses trying better to leave us be but of course they have to get her stats every 4 hours and weigh her every day before 6am. I thought sleep was supposed to be the best medicine but obviously not very important in a hospital.  I'm done complaining now. I just haven't gotten a lot of sleep either.....

Otherwise she had her iasis (sp?) (the treatment where they hook her blood up to a machine and it pulls out all the excess white blood cells and puts it back into her body cleaner). It went well. Found out today it didn't pull as much white blood cells out as the first day but they said that was to be expected. I guess white blood cells start to get a little sticky and don't separate as well after the firt run.

In the afternoon we had alot of visitors again. It was good to see and talk with everyone as the more familiar faces come the more it doesn't seem like we are in a hospital dealing with cancer. Later in the afternoon as more people came I split out for a little bit to go home and shower and get some more clothes. I came back to find Tessa sitting with family on the deck by the childrens ward. Arianna and some nephews were playing with the playhouse and a go around car. It was great just to play with Arianna for a bit. We are very very thankful she is at the age where she doesn't rely on mom for everything but still isn't old enough to quite comprehend everything. She's just having a good vacation with Grandma and Grandpa. We're also thankful too she is as independent as her father and gives kisses and waves goodby without fussing.

thanks to everyone even for just a quick post on facebook or a quick text to my or tessa's phone. Every bit of encouragement is heartwarming as we have felt more love and family and friends connection the past few days than we ever thought possible.