Saturday, September 7, 2013

Sadbh’s update – September 7th 2013


Sadbh had yet another great night and slept soundly. Danielle was not successful in capping her trach unfortunately.

Katie took over from Danielle at 6 and Sadbh woke up not too long afterwards and was ready for breakfast.

We had a bunch of errands to take care of this morning so as soon as we were ready we headed off. Sadbh was happy to be out in the car but soon fell asleep.
Our first stop was Costco and since Sadbh was still sleeping we transferred her ever so gently from the car to her stroller.
Fifteen minutes or so later she woke up with a surprised look on her face. She loves Costco and wanted everything she set her eyes on.

We later headed to REI to check out a few different bike trailers for Sadbh. She spotted a couple of nice pink kids bikes with training wheels and was very intent on getting one. Unfortunately for her, she did not succeed in persuading us to buy one.

As soon as we arrived home we got everything set up for trach care and trach change. By now she was wide-awake so we had to talk her through the whole process. Usually when we are doing trach change Sadbh is either sleeping or we have a third person available to hold the iPhone so she can remain focused on that when we remove the old trach and replace it with the new one.
Today since it was just Katie and I we had to turn off the iPhone and explain the process and how we needed her to help out.
At first she was reluctant but soon understood that it would be easier to comply.
Thankfully everything went well however as soon as the new trach went in Sadbh got very upset and cried for a while. She was perfectly fine but I think she was a little frightened by the whole experience.

Once we were done with that we loaded up the car and headed over to meet Ali-Baba and Kirk for dinner.
Sadbh fell asleep soon after we left the house but woke up as soon as she heard Ali-Baba’s voice.
She was delighted to see both Ali-Baba and Kirk and was very chatty throughout dinner.  
After dinner we headed to get ice cream and then went over to Sunset Hill to check the sun setting behind the Olympic Mountains. Sadbh had great time playing with Ali-Baba and was very sad when we all headed off home. As we left she started to shout out the window “Bye bye Peggy!” Too funny!

Just before bed Sadbh took her first poop in her potty. It was a joyous moment for everyone up to the point when I had to clean out the potty. Sadbh was very proud of herself, as were we.





All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.

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