Tue 29 Nov
My birthday this year didn't start in quite the way I had hoped - as mentioned earlier, I spent most of the first 6 or 7 hours walking up and down the corridors of Ladybird ward!
However, by then, Little S had been on the ward for almost a day and a half and was getting better fast - so much so that the doctors have been talking about her coming home today. Today! Just fours days after open heart surgery! Incredible.
But then they found that Little S had caught a virus, in hospital. She was a bit snotty and a bit coughy and a bit unsettled. Was this going to stop Little S? No way - not only did it look like she might get back home with just 4 nights in hospital, she was going to do it with a virus!
So the doctors thought that from a cardiac point of view she was ready but couldn't really send her home if she was still ill and they wouldn't know the results of the latest blood test until about 4pm - this would show if the virus was fading or not.
4pm came and went.
5pm came and went.
By now, the registrars on the ward felt certain that Little S would be going home but they didn't have the authority to let us go. For that we had to wait for Georgie. If he didn't arrive soon, with Grandpa G on his way to pick us up (having run out of a meeting earlier in the afternoon for a false alarm), Little S may well have taken after her late Grandma and busted out of hospital whether or not she had official sanction.
Finally Georgie arrived and gave us his blessing - we were going home!
Elation, relief, amazement - what a birthday present!
And to see the kids so happy when we got home, the whole family back together again - we had finally left the scary woods behind ... until next time.
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