Still Here...The Battle of the Boredom

Thank you for all your prayers and well-wishes!

Vivie is in good spirits...now that I brought her toys in to battle the boredom! I think an 8-month-old DOES get bored--of staring at the hospital ceiling tiles for 4 nights straight. Who wouldn't? The most exciting thing in her room before was the beeping IntelliVue monitor detailing all her stats. Now she has a whistle in her tune despite the fact that she's not ready to go home yet. Her O2 has been beefed up to 100% as she is still struggling (with a smile on her face). Gotta love my Vivs! The deep suctioning is not working as effectively because her airways are so swollen that they can't pull up the junk in her lungs and chest the way they were able to before. She's a fighter and will get through this, but it looks like we're here for the long haul until she can let go of the o2 and suctioning of any kind. I'm thinking we'll still be starring at these hospital walls come Wednesday, which will make a week. Now I want to see Vivie make a liar out of me!

Curt figured out a battle for my boredom too--his computer with a wireless aircard (this hospital doesn't have WiFi that we can borrow on my computer, but Curt's aircard does the trick). So I get the internet now...hooray! I also brought in my crocheting from a year ago when I found myself on bedrest (can you believe it's been nearly a year since the Vivie drama started?!) Curt also made it more comfy during his 'shift' by getting our room switched to a private one. We were in the cold corner room with TWO other roommates--none of which spoke English, liked to watch the Spanish soaps and Spanish Judge Judy as loud as they possibly could while ignoring their sick babies. One of the moms even propped her 4 week old baby in front of the TV with Montel Williams blarring and repeatedly told the baby, "This is your show--watch it." AMAZING.

As I was cleaning up things ready to switch Curt on Friday afternoon, I lifted up a hospital blanket off the floor to find 2 nesting cockroaches. I'm sure they were mating to make more little nasty critters. So Curt took care of it and got our room switched right away to a private one with a patio which has made a world of difference not to have to deal with the inept mothers and unwanted noise out there! Thanks, honey! Oh, and ya want to know how the cockroaches made their way into a hospital? They found them in another room as well....and these twins happened to occupy both rooms at one point. They came in on their carseats, YES, people do let their babies live in filthiness and it just breaks my heart! They lived in Calexico---basically in Tijuana so go figure. Poor babies.

I didn't throw my camera in my boredom buster bag for the hospital so you can't see Vivie loving her toys with absolute glee on her face. You'll just have to imagine it. What a trooper.