Monday, January 12, 2015

Sadbh’s update – January 12, 2015


Cillian was just falling back to sleep around half past six in the morning when Sadbh decided it was time for her to wake up and join us upstairs. Both Katie and I had been awake for over two hours by this stage and we pleaded with Sadbh to go to sleep until we all got some much needed rest.

I went down to sign the nurse out and after she headed off I went back up to join the family for a snooze.
Sadbh did good and managed to stay quiet for another hour or so.

Eventually it was time to get up and start the day.
After breakfast Sadbh and Mommy spent the morning reading books and hanging out together.

Later in the morning Sadbh got to help give Cillian a bath and she enjoyed it a lot more than Cillian did.

Trach care went well today and soon afterwards Sadbh was curled up in our bed sleeping her head off. She was completely wiped out.
We let her sleep for an hour before waking her up and when she woke up she was the crankiest that I have ever seen her. She got so upset that we had to remove her trach cap to allow her to breathe properly and after a while we had to suction her trach to clear her secretions.
Eventually we were able to calm her down and once she was happy we headed off to Alki Beach for a walk in the sunshine.

Sadbh had a great time splashing in the puddles and writing in the sand. She really wanted to build sand castles but unfortunately it was too cold for that.

By bedtime she was quite tired but it still took a while to get her to sleep.

We have Sadbh’s follow up appointment with Dr. Inglis tomorrow morning and there is a strong chance that he will place a flexscope up her nose to view her vocal cords.
Sadbh hates this procedure so in preparation of tomorrows visit she picked out a gift last week and will receive it after the appointment.
Tonight she was talking to Katie about her appointment and mentioned that Dr. Inglis might not place the camera up her nose. Katie then asked her if that would be ok in which Sadbh responded that she wanted him to do the flexscope and that we should make sure to ask him to do it.  Presumably, she wants this so that she is sure to get her new toy.





All the best,

Wayne, Katie, Sadbh and Cillian.

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