Thanksgiving
As you can image our lives had changed dramatically. Thanksgiving had a different intensity, different from years past. This year - as the meaning was still the same of family and friends gathering, it meant so much more than previous years.
Marni was back in the kitchen cooking and doing what she loves. Cooking and telling people how to cook!
We had a beautiful Thanksgiving with so much to be thankful for.
December was another chapter...
Sloan came down with the RSV Virus and spent 4 nights in the ICU at Rady’s Children Hospital.
What a nightmare. You would think we would get some kind of break, maybe some one would say; “Hey there’s Marni and Paul. Let’s leave the kids alone, they have been through enough.”
Unfortunately, it was only us thinking that way.
There is nothing more difficult for us, than having the kids sick. Let alone being in the hospital. It was really tough on us both. Marni had a problem remembering questions and orders from the doctors (a side effect from the surgery,) so I needed to be there to speak to the doctors. That was frustrating for Marni. She felt helpless.
On the other hand, it was good bonding time for Marni and Sloan. Kinda crappy in a hospital ICU, but I guess you take it where you get it!
When we left the hospital, it was such a beautiful evening. Most children in the ICU don’t go straight home, they go to a step down unit.
The nurse that was taking care of Sloan, asked if he could parade her around the ICU (kind of like a show pony) and say good bye to all the nurses and little boys and girls. He was so proud, like she was his baby, it was very beautiful...a lot of tears at that moment, so much had happen, and we thought we were out of the woods.
Sloan, with a little left over congestion was breathing better, she was past the worse part and we were taking her home.
I didn’t sleep at all that night.
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