Yucky nose, mama

I'm home for a brief break to get something for our dinner and to get a change of clothes to take back with me to the hospital since I get to sleep on the folding out bed tonight. We were hoping that S-Boogie could come home before tomorrow, but she's not quite back up to where she should be. When she falls asleep, her oxygen levels go back down and the little alarm goes off, so we know things aren't totally better. She had an OK day today: her reaction to this hospital stay has been to withdraw into her little shell. It's been weird to see her so quiet, and her poor little thumb is getting a nasty red spot from being sucked on so much. I think it's been more traumatic for her this time around and she's having a harder time dealing with it. But, she had a few good moments today. Skye stopped by with some fun balloons, L and L came by to say hello, a special "helper dog" visited and got S-Boogie to talk a little bit and pet him, she got to take a bath, and she watched Finding Nemo this afternoon. I'm not a big fan of that movie, but when I asked her if she wanted to see a movie she replied "fish", since it's the only movie she's really ever seen and I think that "movie" and "fish" just go together in her brain. As strongly as I feel about kids and TV, there's not a lot of other things for her or for us to do and we need to keep her quiet and distracted from the tubes in her nose. Hopefully we'll be coming home soon and we can just cuddle and love her and help her feel happy again.

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