Thursday, July 31, 2014

Sadbh’s update – July 31st 2014


Sadbh managed to wear the PMV on her trach for almost seven hours. She woke up about half an hour before Helen’s shift ended and was not one bit pleased.

She was very attached to Mommy this morning and was extremely unhappy when Katie had to leave for work. It took almost an hour to calm her down and before she was happy again.
I managed to convince her that if she got dressed and came out for breakfast that we would head off to the beach as soon as she finished breakfast. This did the trick and soon we were heading down to Madison Park.

As we got ready the Blue Angels were practicing overhead. They buzzed by the house numerous times and Sadbh and Sophia were so excited with the loud sounds and sight of the planes flying by.
Sadbh kept calling them the “Blue Belle Angels” from a book she received from our friend Helen that contained a Blue Belle fairy named Bella that lived in our garden. It was so funny and every time a plane went by Sadbh would point and shout, “there is a blue belle angel”.

Our timing for the beach was perfect and it was not too packed. Sadbh was ready to get straight into the water and since I brought my swimming togs I was able to bring her out a little deeper than before.
We had so much fun building sandcastles on the shore and we even built a big pond running along side the castles.

We had a great time but all of a sudden we were surrounded by twenty or so young kids from a summer camp. Sadbh and I were literally smack bang in the middle of all these kids as they splashed each other and threw sand all over the place. This would normally be completely fine, but with a trach we had to finish up and get back onto dry land, fast.
Thankfully, Sadbh was fine with this and after a quick clean up it was time for lunch.

Trach care went very easy today and Sadbh was very content watching Curious George on my phone.
Shortly afterwards Mommy arrived home so we could take Sadbh to her acupuncture appointment. By now she was getting very tired and a little bit cranky but when it came time for her appointment she was fantastic.

Sadbh’s friends, Cormac and Clodagh, came by for a play date this evening and the three kids had a wonderful time playing in the garden.

Bedtime was so easy as Sadbh was completely and utterly wiped out from her hectic day.
 




All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh

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