Emergency

Yesterday morning Lyric gets up at 7 a.m. and wakes me up because he has to go to the bathroom and do a number 2. So we get up, I drag his pole along with him down the hallway to the bathroom. I wait outside the room which is located next to the nurses station. There were oodles of nurses since it was shift change time. I stood there half asleep.... EMERGENCY... EMERGENCY... EMERGENCY is chiming from the load speaker in the hallway... the nurses JUMP up and look at the board above to see where the emergency button has been pushed. The run over to the bathroom where Lyric is, and my heart stops.. I said Lyric is in there, they try and get the door open, it's locked so they open it and he is sitting there merrily still taking a poo.. he smirks and says I just wanted to see what would happen.

Oh, Lyric.

I then told him to apologize which he didn't want to do out of embarrassment. So he made a card stating he was sorry for pulling the emergency cord and making you panic. lol...

So as you probably gathered we are STILL in the hospital. We have been granted LOA's everyday and today we were able to leave for a few extra hours so we actually came home. Home... it feels strange being in my own house. Like I'm only here visiting. I miss it dearly, the comfort, the smell.. the place where we can relax and enjoy the simple things like being able to go the bathroom and not have a line up out the door.. and just the mere silence.. no dinging of bells and IV monitors, no nurse intrusions throughout the night waking you up.. the walls are not closing in on me at home. I am thankful for my home! Floor creek noises and all.

Lyric's doing very well, the infection in his cheek has disappeared, but his counts are too low still. His body has not started to make his own red cells and platelets, and he is still Neutropenic.. his count is at 0 in fact. So they are concerned we would get home and he would spike a fever again. He needs to stay on antibiotics for a bit longer.. ugh... I hate so many antibiotics.

Doesn't look like he will get his bone marrow test tomorrow either since his counts aren't high enough either. They are thinking maybe Thursday.

It's been so quiet over the last week or so, everyone has been sick and busy. It's a bad season for colds and flu's already at the hospital. Not a good sign!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh, and Lyric says he's thankful for chicken (we had Swiss Chalet for dinner) and Avery is thankful for Lyric. aww...