Finally home

We were scheduled to leave the hospital at 10:00 AM. Our new Filipino nurse was awesome and set Liza up for one last shot at 10. Her IV had to come out of her hand so she got that one in...well, the keister (keester...sp?...the bum). She said it didn't hurt at all. Then we waited around for almost an hour to be discharged and get a wheelchair escort out. In the meanwhile I made several trips to the car to pack and Liza relaxed in the room trying to cope with some considerable pain. We drove out at 10:50 AM.

The car ride home was pretty rough, literally. You never realize how many bumps there are on I-45 until you're trying to avoid them all. She was worn out by the time we got home. We dropped off the prescriptions right away and then went home. The kids were waiting for us outside with their grandparents, but the reception wasn't what anyone envisioned. Andrew started crying for some unexplained reason and Izzy was pretty nervous and withdrawn. They're both okay now and it didn't take long.

Then I went to pick up her pain meds. Of course, there was a major problem when I got there - with both kids in tow. Dr. Tornado, who discharged us, didn't fill out the prescriptions correctly so they couldn't fill them. We had several tense moments of phone calls and finally got everything worked out. We rushed home and medicated mom as quickly as possible, where she was sitting in the exact position that we left her with my parents and her mom. Now we're waiting for the meds to kick in, trying to put the kids down for a nap, and then I'm off to get a big recliner to try to recreate a hospital bed feel in our bedroom. Continue to pray for her neck pain, which is almost exclusively on the left side. And pray that we ALL - especially Liza - get some rest right away, and that the rest of the day goes well.