RE: PS ph out of the hospital

[Guest guest]

,

Maybe I should have worded that a little differently. When the soup is

cooking it helps to REDUCE stress. It probably can't make things

stress-free, but it certainly may help. :-)

ph out of the hospital

Hello everyone,

came home yesterday. He is still vomiting a little, but the

surgeon

said that will settle down as the gastritis clears up. He is really

grouchy (to

me that is a good sign). He is on a pureed diet, and he will be eating

little

amounts of food all day long. He will see the surgeon again on Tuesday.

Our

family doctor and I came to an understanding, and I explained to him

that

sometimes will be an easy case and there may be times he will be an

extremely high maintenance patient. I have to say the nurses at the

hospital were

absolutely wonderful. was on an adult floor since the peds floor

was full

and too much flu. We had a private room and they brought me in a cot to

sleep

on. We are both settling in here at home. is much more relaxed

and

slept uninterrupted for the first time last night. We were both wore

out. He got

a flu shot before he left the hospital since the doctors both said it

would

be fine. was mad about that. He got sick right after we got home

and I

think it was the ride home. We are having a lot of biting behaviors

right now,

and I have his arms and hands wrapped in gauze and wash cloths and taped

so

he can't bite the skin. We have a long road ahead of us yet, but we are

on the

road to recovery. I am still keeping isolated because of the flu

season, and he's not able to yet handle any more. He has been up moving

around on

his own, walking from his bed to the recliner in the living room. I am

worried

about him wanting to lay only on his right side. I am trying to keep

him

from doing it too much, since he is so bony I don't want a pressure

sore. We are

working on getting more staffing in here to help me out, and I may lose

my

job because the company I work for would not pay me to be at the

hospital with

him, so I just didn't tell them he was there. Being a single parent I

have to

have a paycheck. My stress level hit it's peak on the last IV stick to

,

I almost passed out trying to help the nurses. I have never done that

before,

and I know it was from sheer exhaustion and a stress level that was

entirely

too high. Well, needs me. Will keep you updated and thank you

all.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!