Saturday, April 20, 2013

Sadbh’s update – April 20th 2013


Sadbh slept right through the night. My parents popped in to say goodbye just before 4am and even though she was sound asleep it was a very sad farewell. Even Danielle, Sadbh’s nurse, shared the emotion.

Sadbh slept until 7:45 and as soon as she woke up Katie brought her upstairs to bed.
It was the first time in a long time that it was just the three of us in the house and it seemed like we were missing something. This feeling followed us throughout the entire day and every time a plane flew by Sadbh would wave and say “good bye Granddad, good bye Nana”.

After a quick breakfast we headed downtown for a spot of shopping and Sadbh had a great time.
In one particular store she could not stop trying on hats while dancing to the music. She was very entertaining to everyone in the store.

She was getting tired by the time we arrived home so we gave her a nice warm bath and got her ready for trach care. Unfortunately she did not want to go to sleep so after a while both Katie and I decided to manage trach care while she was awake. She did really well and we were successful in getting everything completed.

We finally got Sadbh off to sleep by going for a drive in the car and as soon as we were under way she was out cold.

It was a very quiet day overall and you could tell that Sadbh was sad due to absence of Nana and Gerdie.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Sadbh has to be one of the luckiest people around to have such amazing grandparents. They gave up another six months of their lives to help take care of Sadbh. We are going to miss them something fierce.






All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh. 

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