Guess who came to our hospital room today....

This is Tavis, well its 6:15pm on Friday the 19^th. Amy had her feeding tube put in a few hours ago. Let me just say that I wish I could take the pain for Amy.

The first feeding tube attempt: immediately after the tube was in place Amy was feeling pressure against her eye and choking. I noticed a little white thing in her nose and what happened was the tube doubled back and it was getting curled up in her nose and throat. (Not Good) They had to remove it and it hurt her so bad. It was not the RNs fault it just happened so quickly and she never felt any resistance when pushing it in.

The second attempt: After about 15-20 mins of recovery from the traumatic first attempt we gave it another go. This time it went as planned. It still hurt Amy a lot and she was a bit panicked that there was something in her nose and throat.

They gave Amy some meds to help with the nausea from the tube and the side effect is sleepiness. With that being said, Amy is sleeping now, but wakes up every 20mins or so in pain and hits her pain button and then she’s off again.

While Amy was sleeping I started cleaning the room. We have been able to have our own room because of the pneumonia, but they are now thinking the fluid which appeared to be in the lungs is from the pancreatitis which caused pneumonia type symptoms. This means getting ready for a possible new roommate. After about an hour of condensing back down into one side of the room and doing some extensive cable management the DR. came in and said the room has been declared private!!!!!!!!! This is really good news. It means that we can now have Lincoln come visit! The staff up here have been so nice and really flexible with us we love them.

Lincolns first visit: Narrated by Tavis - When Amy’s mom and dad walked in with Lincoln Amy was still pretty out of it from the meds she got earlier. We woke Amy up and sat Lincoln’s car seat on the bed so that Amy could see his face, Amy burst into tears and said “I’ve just missed you so much.” Amy’s parents went down to the café for a few while me Amy and Lincoln hung out, cried and drank bottles (ok maybe just Lincoln did.) When Lincoln showed up it marked almost to the minute when the pain started last Friday. It has been a week separated, but it feels nice to have just the three of us together even if it was only for a few minutes.

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this is Amy again because I had to log in to post this for Tavis. The only thing cuter than the fact that he voluntarily wrote a blog for me, was that when he was reading it back to me he started crying when he talked about me waking up and seeing Lincoln there for the first time. Progress. 

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