hospital
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Cast removal
Today is a big day. Namine usually sleeps in until at least 9 or 10, but she woke up before I left for work this morning. When Jessica asked her what today was, she said with no hesitation: “Today I get my casts and boots off!”
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Going home today
Namine is playing on her laptop while we wait for Jessica to come pick us up from the hospital. “Who’s your best friend?” Her laptop asks. Namine looks at me, giving me the biggest grin. “My best friend is my Haha! He makes my feet feel all better.” How undeserving I am of such an…
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Skin graft successful
Namine is resting in her room in the PICU. She’s being kept overnight, because she is, after all, a heart patient above all else. The graft was successful, and her doctors are confident she’ll be able to go home tomorrow.
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Skin graft today
Namine was taken back at about 8:15 this morning for her skin graft procedure. We’re told that it should only take about an hour and a half, but we’ll see. Being as delicate a procedure as this is, we’re just concerned with Namine’s well-being.
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Finally home
Namine was discharged last night – huzzah! Jessica’s sister Chyral helped us bring all the stuff home from the hospital. Good thing, too, because we would have been hard pressed to fit it all into our little car.
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One step closer to home
Time stands still in the hospital. But at the same time, the days rush by in a blur. Every day brings us one day closer to going home.
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At last, relief
Namine is out of surgery. She will be brought back up to the ICU soon, and she is doing well. The artery in her left foot has been grafted once more and is profusing nicely, and there has been no tissue loss.
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More complications
To be as blunt and straightforward as possible: Namine is in danger of losing her left foot. She is in surgery now, and the doctors are doing all they can to ensure its safety.
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Complications: an update
Just got another update from the operating doctor.
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Complications
We just received an update on Namine’s foot surgery, and it’s not good.
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Foot pre-surgery
Since I woke Namine up this morning, she’s been excited. She knows – well, knew, since she’s been taken back for surgery now – what’s coming, and what it means. I’ll let her tell you in her own words: “I’m having foot surgery today, so I can have my feet fixed and I can walk…
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Massive ear infection
Namine woke up screaming this morning around 4:00. Then she threw up – but by then she was in my arms, and I was prepared for it. We eventually got her to go back to sleep, nestled in between the two of us in what Namine calls “the big bed.” (You know, as opposed to…