Surgery, Day 2
Today, Mr Bump was awake for longer periods - about an hour and a half at a time, then later for a few hours.
When we arrived, the nurses and other parents remarked on his beautiful manners through the night; “Please may I have a drink of water?”.
It was sweet to hear he remembered his manners better than he does normally, but why are they so good when he’s not feeling well?!
He just had the drain removed from his chest when we arrived at 8.30am, which we hadn’t expected that early, and later in the day the drips and monitors were slowly removed.
It was all quite painful, but he was a very brave little boy and earnt another “Super Brave Day” bead for his Heart Beads string.
A surprise gift basket arrived at about 9am from Daddy’s work, packed with drawing and painting supplies. It was the perfect thing!
Here our little angel is about half an hour after the basket arrived. Kind of spaced out, but he insisted that he was still painting.
He fell asleep not long after.
Wren and Grandma arrived a while later and Mr Bump shared his new paint set with sis.
Wren created a lovely “I <!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>
love you” painting that we stuck up on the noticeboard as soon as we moved out of ICU and into the ward.
It didn’t take long before it was time for another nap, but that was the last one in ICU.
Yes, I know I look awful in the shot (kind of like a horse with all those teeth), but it’s the only one we have of Mr Bump painting the nose of one of the wonderful Clown Doctors!
They called in just after we moved into the ward, and insisted on putting up “Christmas streamers” (toilet paper hung over the curtain railings).
Our little boy was a wee bit overwhelmed, but they were great fun.
A very active day and both he & I slept well, despite being in a strange place.