Coming Home

Tuesday May 10^th

Was an early morning day. I had to get up and get ready to leave for home. I also had to get Caroline’s and my stuff ready. I could tell that she was so ready to be home. Jeff ran us to the airport and then came back to the hospital. After only waiting a little while, the team of doctors were happy with how well Tanner was doing and how his labs were looking. They said they needed to see if home health was arranged and if it was T could go home THAT DAY. We needed home health because T has a PICC line in his arm for his medications, and so that blood draws could be done weekly. It was a very happy moment when home health was all arranged and we got the YES to go home. They had to plan things just right because T needed meds every eight hours through his PICC line. Jeff had until four to get things ready to leave so he had to run down to the McDonald house and do everything there. He then came back to the hospital to gather everything up and do all of the discharge stuff. He is one amazing daddy to do all of this by himself. Our family in ST.G was also awesome. I wanted my house very clean before T came home to make sure no bacteria or fungal stuff was lingering in my house. Our family came and helped us clean our house really well and wipe everything down so it was ready for T. While I was at work I was able to help arrange things with home health and get T’s meds and everything he would need at home. It was kind of a crazy process but we made it work. Jeff and T left PCMC about 5:30 pm and made it home around 11ish. They we had to wait up for home health to come at midnight and help us give Tanner his meds. They didn’t have to come every time we administered his meds, just the first time to make sure we knew how to do everything and we knew what everything was.