T minus 45 hours

We are home!

 

The final hurdle ended up being Hope's ability to regulate her glucose level after such a long period of IV fluids and no food. This morning the docs were satisfied and let us decide whether we wanted to just stay until Wednesday or go home for a night. The transition isn't easy for her, and we are a little worried about her ability to stay hydrated enough and eat enough to keep her blood sugar up. But in the final analysis, we picked home. To be all together and sleep in our own beds and take a real shower/bath.

And once we got here they called to move our readmission to Thursday. Yippee! So we had a total of about 45 hours of home life to enjoy. (Current status is T minus 38.)