Week 8 and 1 day

I am very tired. It has been an emotionally exhausting day. Tanner went to the ICU at 11am to have his wound inspected. Anesthesia was there and put him out. The wound looks good, but still not healed enough for stitches. So back on went the suction cup to Tanner's tummy. While he was "sleeping", they did a dressing change on his PIC line and gave him a bath! The nurses joked it was his "spa day"! Now it was funny until Tanner woke up. He is inconsolable, mad, mean, (and you get the idea). It continues for about 2 hours and then he settles down. He actually looked at me and said, "mom, can we change the bandaid later?". He had no memory of the procedure. Wish I could have some of that too! But then the tantrums, screaming, and kicking kept showing it's ugly head throughout the afternoon and evening. The nurses try to help...but we just have to ride it out. Its just getting harder and harder for both of us. And they are going to check the wound on Thursday, so that means back to the ICU...I'm going to let Mark handle this one...my ICU experience ended with one Nurse Practitioner, who is the surgeons right hand, tell me her goal is to have Tanner home by Xmas. What a great thought.