Friday, August 31, 2012

Sadbh’s update – August 31st, 2012


Sadbh slept really well last night and woke up at 5:15. She and Audrey played for awhile until Katie came down.  
Destiny started her shift at 6am and helped us take care of Sadbh while we packed up her supplies and all our gear for our trip to Lake Chelan.

It was a busy morning between meeting two different contractors and a potential new nurse.
As soon as the last appointment of the morning was about to start, Sadbh looked like she was about to fall asleep, so Destiny brought her outside for a walk around the street.
It paid off and as soon as we were done with the second contractor, Sadbh was ready for trach care.
She had a nice relaxing bath and immediately afterwards she fell into a deep sleep.
Katie and Destiny managed trach care and Sadbh slept on for a couple of hours afterwards.

The hope was to hit the road by 1pm, however, it took us a lot longer than planned and we ended up leaving the house at 3:30.  We were so lucky to have Destiny there to help us and Sadbh was delighted since she got to have so much fun.

The trip to Lake Chelan is approximately three and a half hours, however, about fifty miles outside of Seattle we hit the worst traffic ever. It took us almost two hours to travel five miles and Sadbh was upset the entire time. I was trying to keep her calm in the back of the car while Katie drove, but Sadbh kept making the sign for mommy.
After an hour or so we switched places only for Sadbh to make the sign for daddy once Katie was sitting next to her.
Unfortunately it took another hour for her to finally calm down and eventually she fell asleep.

It was late when we finally arrived at Lake Chelan and since we were the last ones to arrive, our friends rallied and helped off load the car. It was empty within five minutes despite taking a couple of hours to load up earlier in the day.

Sadbh woke up and was able to enjoy a late dinner and got to hang out with Clodagh and Luna briefly.

When it came time for bed though, Sadbh was overly tired and very energetic. I have a feeling that its going to be a rough night.



All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.

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