Well we had a night at home but I cannot say that we had more sleep than at the hospital. With Justin out of sorts and waking and Nathan calling for help in the middle of the night there was some bed switching and kid coddling through most of the night. I'm sure it will get better but we are going to have to figure out the best way to get some sleep.
It also didn't help us that Nathan had some side effects going on last night. His stomach was distended and as hard as a rock. It was like poking a piece of wood! Needless to say it concerned Shelley and I so that we had to test the doctor's promise of calling him at any time. Evidently this is a side effect of the steroid he is on. We are now told that his stomach will probably get quite distended and that his face and neck will be quite puffy. He said that sometimes the patients clothes don't fit after the four weeks of steroids. This effect does go down after he is off the steroids but he said it will take longer than the four weeks to lose it than it was to gain it. That situation was a reminder of no matter how much we weren't wild about being the hospital it was a little frightening to not have someone to immediately ask and discuss an unknown problem! Thankfully our doctor was quite patient with us last night and he is concerned about Nathan as well.
Our day today has been pretty good but you can tell our minds are elsewhere and sleep might be getting to us. After Carter's first reconciliation this morning we drove out to Stonebridge to look at our house that we hadn't seen in a couple of weeks. I promptly locked the keys in the van - sheesh! Many thanks again to Colette for coming to our rescue.
Wish us a better night tonight.
-Arron
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