Day 14 & 15

Day 14

Hopefully this will be one of my last updates. Today the 2nd preliminary report came in and the culture still shows no pseudomonas. We're hoping the final report comes in tomorrow, but it could be a late at Wednesday.

Ethan had a rough day. We contemplated putting him down for a morning nap since he was so grumpy but took him outside for an hour instead. He had a difficult time sitting independently during treatments, whined, threw toys & food, and basically just had a horrible day. He took a 2 hour nap but it didn't seem to help him very much.

Ken's mom is with him tonight. She brought him some Mountain Mike's pizza tonight so he happily devoured half a slice. It wasn't much but just to see him shoveling food in his mouth was exciting. I hope that when we get home he does the same when recognizes his old favorites.

Ethan's very into Thomas the Tank Engine now that his Grandpa, Gary A. Dean brought him a new book last night. We borrowed a DVD from the nurses station. He was watching Cars, his favorite, when I asked him if he wanted to watch Cars or Thomas. He politely said, "Bye, cars!"

Thanks to Gail Stark Schwiesow for coming and cleaning my bathrooms that were long overdue to be cleaned! It's a job I loathe doing and I don't know when I would have found the time to clean them in the near future.

We're hoping tomorrow's the day we get sent home! I can't wait to have my whole family under one roof again.


Day 15


After 14 long days of trying to keep a 2.5 year old happy in a hospital room, we have been told his culture test came back negative and we can go home!!!!

Day 15

We are finally home!!!! We waited until 1pm today not knowing whether we'd get a final result today or tomorrow and finally got the call from the pediatrician on call that the result was negative. We put Ethan down for a nap which was just enough time for the discharge papers to be filed and after he woke up started loading up the car. It took Ken 3 wagon trips to get everything to the car.

We made it home at 530pm after promising Ethan Costco pizza for dinner...his favorite! We immediately turned on kids tunes in the car and "If your happy and you know it" came on. He was clapping and singing "Hooray" which was so fitting. As soon as we pulled off the freeway Ethan said, "Home"

Since getting home we have bathed Ethan, laundered all the clothes, blankets, pillow cases etc that came to the hospital and started sifting through the bags and bags of stuff we took with us. Tomorrow will be a day of sanitizing toys and books that we brought with us.

Ethan was happy to be in his own bed tonight covered in all his "bobbys" which are his blankies. I thought he wouldn't want to be alone but he didn't care. I look forward to him waking up and cuddling with us in bed in the morning!

We are so thankful to be home and pseudomonas free!!! Thank you for your prayers and support! Life goes on.