Guest guest Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Thanks for all the updates , you are too sweet! We are home! I never chewed my nails and wasn't about to start last week, but I never found time for a manicure either. I ended up just cutting them short, I didnt want to have to worry about scratching her or anyone else. So now thats its over, I'm ready to relax with a mani/pedi when she goes back to school! She was nauseus for about 24 hours. The surgeon left word that we could go home the first day after surgery, that wasnt going to happen. she was still in a lot of pain and hadnt eaten or had any fluids that werent in her IV. The 2nd day she started drinking more and the 3rd day, she ate her food and kept it down. So I called my mom to bring us home, my husband stayed home with our other two. The best part of this whole thing was that I had a meal plan. I had a menu to pick a full day of food from. We found out the day we were leaving how all this came about. The woman who runs Food Service on the Pediatric Floor that she was on, told us that she always had parents asking her for a tray of food. All the other times, I had to pick leftovers from her tray or get cafeteria food or take out. The woman said she asked the parents to write letters and they petitioned the hospital. When she got the first approval, she kept it going and went to the next level. So now its all in place. When I got my first tray full of food, I thought it was for her. But she had orders that Tara was not on solids yet, so it was for me! ALl this meant I didnt need to leave the floor, or her side for two days. I tried the first night to walk my aunt to the elevator to leave and Tara only broke into tears. It was easier when she was a baby, to tell the nurses I'd be going down for food, but it would have been much tougher this time with her being so much older. So I hope that every hospital starts this system of giving one parent a tray of food, it honestly saved my sanity and my wallet! She is resting today. She just needs to lay her head down a few times a day. It should get easier every day, from what I've heard. She is cleared for school so we're not sure about Monday yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 So was the advise you were given correct -sounds like it that the first 2 days were the worst right? I'm so happy that you got to stay with Tara the whole time, and thank goodness for the meal plan for you (how was the food?!) I'm sure when Tara goes back to school they are going to treat her like a celebrity -I mean how many kids her age go through brain surgery?!!! And she so deserves some special treatment now -as do you! Keep us posted as to when she is able to laugh without pain -that's going to be a beautiful thing! ===== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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