and a fine evening it is.a movie has ended as i listen to some type of celtic music while the credits roll, the sounds slightly distorted and distant coming from the hand held speaker of a control box dangling from the side rail of a hospital bed. my 11 year old son is sleeping quite comfortably with the IV tubing trailing across his bed, he has become quite accustomed to it treating it like
nothing more than shoestrings that are usually precariously in wait to trip him up.
i would love to be able to light up a cig right now as i settle in to write a bit, unfortunately Children's Hospital personnel might kick my azzz...lol. funny how time seems to become distorted in a mere two days when you are basically isolated into just one room and your excursions out are to find your way through a maze of halls and elevators searching for food.
no i have not resorted to stealing left overs from other patients trays, fortunately the cafeteria not only has a great menu, but super prices that even i can afford. it costs me less to get a great meal that i can never finish, cuz it's more food than i am used to in one sitting, than it costs for me to buy a value meal at a fast food place that always sends me running for the nearest facility or side of the road in a matter of 20 minutes...lol.
( yes that sounds hilarious i admit i laugh about it also, but when the moment of distress hits and your guts are rolling, sickening sweet naseau overcomes your senses, a hot sweat breaks out over your forehead and the back of your neck...i don't care where i'm at, swerve the wheel and screech the breaks...i'd rather take my chances of someone seeing my butt cheeks than have a prize trophy in my drawers...lol...)
and on that note we have had to wait three days for my son to finally give up one of his own sculptures to be submitted for various lab tests. one of the doctors came in today and asked if he had "pooped" yet, at that time the answer was no and my further comment was," too bad we can't just squeeze it out of him"...well lo and behold later on today he was happily aiming his prize in the container they had positioned on the porcelain throne.
so far our good fellow has been in isolation and has fared pretty darn well with dvd's and vhs movies, a game cube and computer with internet access all made available to him. he loved being able to call room service and order his lunch of vegetable broth and fruit punch once he got the okay from the Dr. to be on a clear liquid diet. later on in the afternoon he called room service for a glass of lemonade, he smiled so contently as he took the first sip through his straw and said " ahhh, that is the best lemonade i have ever had."
other than the new clear liquid menu today, he has been dining on the solutions provided by his IV bags, a medication for his stomach acids, a new medication to dissolve gall stones, and vitamin K. tomorrow we will be looking forward to another ultra sound, a possible MRI and of course the daily selection of blood tests that he has been experiencing over the past week.
the boy has gotten pretty darn good at aiming his pee into the handheld urinal without getting any sprinkles or splatters all over the floor, walls, or toilet seat. hmmmm, maybe we will take that home with us and eliminate some of that extra bathroom scrubbing that seems inevitable with boys in the house, then again maybe not, he has already gotten into the required habit of leaving it to sit off to the side for someone else to empty it. Darn, it was a good idea for a second...lol.
i will have to post a photo later on of Shade during his stay, we can't load my camera card on the system here, a little issue about "authorization" and "installing new hardware" :)
(aha i have found a computer somewhere else in the hospital to manuever some pics)
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