SOME CUTE HOSPITAL STORIES

(That helped me get through this awful week!)

After they started to lighten up on Kiana's medication, she would sort of "come to" a little. The first time she did, her eyes were only slitted open, but she lifted her foot and pointed at her toe! She thought it was the coolest thing ever that her toe glowed. She kept looking at it. That is, until our last full day in the hospital. Then she kept pulling the thing off. This read her O2 levels, so it was one of the most important monitors she had.

Once we were out of ICU and she was completely alert, just a little bit grumpy due to the steroid treatments, whenever a nurse would walk in her room, she would grab her butterfly blanket, pull it completely over her head and hide. She would hold on to it so tightly that it would be hard to get to her. She was so tired of being poked and having tape pulled off her skin. At one point she had 2 vein IV's, 1 artery IV, her heart monitors (3 stickers), her O2 monitor, her feeding tube, her respirator tube and arm restraints to keep her from pulling anything out! It just broke my heart b/c she couldn't talk to us and she would just squeak out little tears from her eyes. Made mommy cry, too.

After she had been on the feeding tube for a few days, she randomly told the ICU night nurse that she "had pizza last night". She has since asked to have pizza for her birthday party this next weekend! :) We're going to celebrate BIG!

Thanks to many of you, Kiana received some very cute stuffed animals at the hospital. Often times, when she had the respirator tube in and couldn't talk, she would just point to each one. She had to have all of them in her arms at the same time. (Thus the picture in the previous post.) The littlest one, a llama, she had to have in her hand so she could squeeze. Every time one would come and she would "wake up", her eyes just lit up, so thank you! The moment she realized these were all hers to take home with her, she could hardly believe it!

Kiana has her own ways of dealing with things. She's a strong little girl, but so stinkin' cute you can hardly handle it some days. Shortly after we got home, I heard things being thrown down the stairs. I went to look and she was throwing anything that had to do with the hospital down the stairs. Her frog blanket she got from the volunteers, her balloons and even a few stuffed animals. If it had to do with the hospital, she didn't want to have anything to do with it. She has since gotten over this and loves her animals and balloons again.