hi!
this weekend was a whirlwind, i'm alive and strong, and my heart is beating widly. this is what i have for you.
1. the skinny - mars is allergic to insect bites, this year has been fullforce. she got bit by a mosquito and a spider, she ended up with cellulitus and was kept over night at swedish. scott and i stayed with her the whole time, we spent the night in her room and switched on/off when needed. she was pumped with antibiotics and they insisted that she might have MRSA. she didn't - no staph at all.
2. this ordeal with taxing, it's taken me several days to jump back from it, i'm almost there.
3. scott was great, we were able to laugh at old jokes and communicated well throughout the ordeal. we needed him there, thank you scott.
4. friends are family - thank to you everyone who had my back on this one. phone calls, VM's, myspace messages, everyone represented for mars.
5. mars is a solider like her mother. barely cried, and took the catheter like a champ. it was hard to watch her go through this, she's only 7 and neither of the kids had done a hospital stay prior to this.
6. the food - pretty good. mars ate free, and everything else was a $1.75 a pop! it took 45 minutes for them to bring it up, we made sure to order early!
7. the staff - excellent, several docs and nurses. boy has the medical industry stepped up it's "customer service", or what? we've come a long way from the surgeon chain smoking in the operating room with feathered hair, plaid bell bottoms and a tan turtle neck AND too much cologne circa 1970!!!
8. the decision - they tried to get bring up her staying an extra night, someone joked that they sometimes make people stay a week! not the case. i broke it down big time! i told them that i was single mother with an $8,000.00 deductible. whatever was necessary for mars, i would consent too, hands down. whatever wasn't, we needed to consider another option. they listened.
9. row machine! i'm murdering this bitch! i love to row my ass off - it helped me big time this weekend.
10. the send off - she was discharged on sunday mid-afternoon. in my opinion they over medicated, used the possible MRSA as justification, but none the less the two antibiotics they gave her worked. she's 100% better.
11. i was challenged and put to the test. i am offically the woman who can handle emergency medical situations. thank you universe, point taken loud and clear!
thank you for reading this, and most of all for believing in me.
your personal green goddess - DC
p.s. mars now refers to herself as "BDC" - a.k.a. baby dragon chic!