Sunday, December 03, 2006
Thursday, first day post op
Thursday morning started out with the doctors making their rounds at about 5:30 am. Every team that saw Pacie said that he looked great and that the positive results of the surgery were already evident. He had bouts of pain which were treated with morphine but other than that things were Boruch Hashem great. As time went by he seemed to be getting better and better.
Aliza who was resting on the sixth floor was having it a little harder but still managed to come down to see Pacie. This was a big deal for Pacie as he was worried about his Mommy. It was also a big deal for Aliza as she could see first hand how he was doing. It was a great meeting.
All that day I shuttled between the sixth, Aliza's floor, and third floors. I used both the elevator and the staircase. I will let you guess which direction I used for each one.
Aliza had some trouble after her visit with Pacie, all of the activity was a bit much. It was bed rest from then on. Pacie was beginning to get bored with the PICU and wanted to be in a regular room. He did not like the fact that he needed to be connected to so many monitors. Same with the tubes, he hated them from the minute he saw them. He begged to have them removed. To me this was a good sign, Pacie was being Pacie, a sure sign of recovery.
Savta came in the afternoon and Zaidy and Grandmommy came in the evening. Menachem Litinansky came by with regards from the Etta Israel staff. Chaim Tolliver and Hershey Fellig came by during the afternoon. A very special mention about Hershey he picked Dovid up from School every day and even drove out to Simcha Monica on Wed. and Thurs. to pick up Yehudaleh and take him along for the ride. He is a real great friend. Pacie loved every minute of the visits they really were great mood enhancers he always cheered up when a visitor showed up.
At about 8:30 Pacie fell asleep. Sometime after 9 pm Howard and Tzvi showed up with a big box of all kinds of food. I had everything that I could want for Shabbos, from the wine for kiddush , a great Bordeaux and a Galil Cabernet, to a Havdalah candle, I mean everything. They are truly great! May Hashem fulfill all of their wishes. They left at about 11.
As I did the night before, I spent the first half of the short night at Pacie's bedside and the second half at Aliza's bedside. Pacie had a not too bad night he slept on and off. Aliza slept the whole night. As was the case Wed. I dozed in a chair while my head rested on a pillow propped against what ever was closest.
Aliza who was resting on the sixth floor was having it a little harder but still managed to come down to see Pacie. This was a big deal for Pacie as he was worried about his Mommy. It was also a big deal for Aliza as she could see first hand how he was doing. It was a great meeting.
All that day I shuttled between the sixth, Aliza's floor, and third floors. I used both the elevator and the staircase. I will let you guess which direction I used for each one.
Aliza had some trouble after her visit with Pacie, all of the activity was a bit much. It was bed rest from then on. Pacie was beginning to get bored with the PICU and wanted to be in a regular room. He did not like the fact that he needed to be connected to so many monitors. Same with the tubes, he hated them from the minute he saw them. He begged to have them removed. To me this was a good sign, Pacie was being Pacie, a sure sign of recovery.
Savta came in the afternoon and Zaidy and Grandmommy came in the evening. Menachem Litinansky came by with regards from the Etta Israel staff. Chaim Tolliver and Hershey Fellig came by during the afternoon. A very special mention about Hershey he picked Dovid up from School every day and even drove out to Simcha Monica on Wed. and Thurs. to pick up Yehudaleh and take him along for the ride. He is a real great friend. Pacie loved every minute of the visits they really were great mood enhancers he always cheered up when a visitor showed up.
At about 8:30 Pacie fell asleep. Sometime after 9 pm Howard and Tzvi showed up with a big box of all kinds of food. I had everything that I could want for Shabbos, from the wine for kiddush , a great Bordeaux and a Galil Cabernet, to a Havdalah candle, I mean everything. They are truly great! May Hashem fulfill all of their wishes. They left at about 11.
As I did the night before, I spent the first half of the short night at Pacie's bedside and the second half at Aliza's bedside. Pacie had a not too bad night he slept on and off. Aliza slept the whole night. As was the case Wed. I dozed in a chair while my head rested on a pillow propped against what ever was closest.
