Home from the hospital

This morning went pretty smoothly with getting things done and getting ready to leave the hospital this morning.  Some people from Peds surgery came by around 6:30a and looked at her surgery site and said it looked great.  We all went back to sleep for a little while.  That was the nice thing too, being able to sleep in her room since that was not at all possible in the NICU due to space constraints and their overall set up.  It was comforting being near her all night!  So...back to what I was saying before...we all went back to sleep and woke up around 7:30a.  I got a bottle ready for Zoey to eat and Dad changed her diaper and watched the nurse do her overall assessment.  We asked there were any expectations for the day that the nurse knew of.  She said just wait to get the ok from the powers that be that we can get out of here.  Around 9:00a, Dr. Ishatani (her surgeon from yesterday) and Jackie (the Peds NP) came in and looked at her surgery site as well.  They were both really pleased with how it looked.  Jackie showed us basic site care and warned us of things to looked for and told us to follow up in a few weeks when we come back down for Zoey's hearing test at the beginning of October unless something came up sooner.  Zoey was all back to her normal self when she woke up this morning and didn't mind it one bit as Jackie pulled the packing out of the site and put more in.  Of course, she wanted to help Jackie by having her hands in the way but we needed to keep her little fingers out of there so she wasn't sticking her fingers into the actual site itself since it's still open some.  Zoey was such a good girl though all of it though! She also hadn't gotten any pain medication since the night before and seemed to be doing well.  She was great while we packed up and slept the whole way home.  Overall, that was about the best trip to the hospital we could have asked for.

Before we actually left the hospital, we swung over into the NICU to see some of our nurses and doctors who worked with Zoey so they could see her progress.  I think we really made their day, but especially one of her Drs, because in true Zoey fashion, she worked the crowd and smiled soooo big at him when he said Hi to her.  Apparently he was having a fairly stressful morning and he said that just completely made his day!  She really seemed to like him and he felt it!  The best part for me...everyone kept telling us how big she is and it's nice to hear that since everyone else in the world loves telling us how cute and little she is.  My response soon will be "No, she's a giant!" since she is compared to how tiny she started life.  It's all a matter of perspective and I realize that so I try to just smile and silently agree with them, but most really have no idea how far she's come so it's nice to be around those that do sometimes!!