Hospital Daze

A rather virulent virus has been going around, and my daughter caught the brunt of it. She has always had lung problems. Being a premie may have something to do with that. At any rate, she had real diffuculty breathing and was running high fevers. So last Saturday we saw a doctor who immediately put us in the hospital. I say us because of her attachment to me. She would not put up with anyone else for very long. So I left her side only briefly during her 4 day stay.

And so they poked and proded and x-rayed her. Everything turned up negative, but the x-rays showed a bit of pnemonia. Sarah was lethargic and slept most of the time. Sometimes she just coughed and cried or got really upset. She spent two days not even cracking a smile.



Today, thankfully was different. She smiled at me. She played and laughed. She's still sick, but well enough to leave the hospital. Hopefully, she'll recover pretty quickly at home. She certainly was excited when we came home.

I must say, that despite the excellent staff and reasonably good food of the hospital, it is the most awful thing to get stuck in there for more than a day or two. The mind and body just go slack with numb boredom. There is simply nothing to do. I wonder how much better people would do in hospitals if patients were made to keep busy as much as their condition allowed?