Alethia
01-23-2005, 07:13 PM
6 months ago on the 23rd July, Angus was admitted to Yorkhill, so on Sunday the 23rd January, we decided to take him home for the afternoon to celebrate. Yup, we actually got him out of there for a while!
Initially Id planned on just trying him out in the car and maybe driving round the block, but once wed gone through all the palaver of packing his stuff and transferring it and him from the buggy we decided that we felt confident enough to take him home after all, the traffics not bad on a Sunday, and its only a 20 minute journey then. He was quietly happy and interested throughout the day. He wasnt alarmed by anything or over-excited. He and we just got on with it. It was far lower key than youd have thought which is probably better because it meant we werent distracted from the task in hand.
He stayed at home for just over 3 hours, got fed there, had a nap on the sofa and a nappy change. He needed to be suctioned about 4 times in total, but apart from the noise of the Devilbiss unit it wasnt horrendous.
He visited the ICU staff once we got back to the hospital and they were very pleased to see him. I think they were quite surprised too because they told me a few times when he was a patient there that people never come back to visit.
So that was our lovely Sunday did anyone else have a Sunday as fab as that?!? I hope so.
Lots of love,
Kate
Initially Id planned on just trying him out in the car and maybe driving round the block, but once wed gone through all the palaver of packing his stuff and transferring it and him from the buggy we decided that we felt confident enough to take him home after all, the traffics not bad on a Sunday, and its only a 20 minute journey then. He was quietly happy and interested throughout the day. He wasnt alarmed by anything or over-excited. He and we just got on with it. It was far lower key than youd have thought which is probably better because it meant we werent distracted from the task in hand.
He stayed at home for just over 3 hours, got fed there, had a nap on the sofa and a nappy change. He needed to be suctioned about 4 times in total, but apart from the noise of the Devilbiss unit it wasnt horrendous.
He visited the ICU staff once we got back to the hospital and they were very pleased to see him. I think they were quite surprised too because they told me a few times when he was a patient there that people never come back to visit.
So that was our lovely Sunday did anyone else have a Sunday as fab as that?!? I hope so.
Lots of love,
Kate