We stayed at the hospital until 10:00 last night and then came back to the apartment to try to get some sleep. PICU does have visiting hours from midnight to 2am, but we decided to skip those in hopes that Sarah Kate would get a little sleep. Scott is a morning person and I am a night person, so we basically decided that it would be easier for him to get me up than for me to keep him up :-) Although I didn't sleep a lot, it was so nice to be able to go somewhere private - many of the families spent the night in the PICU waiting room.
When we left her, she was watching "Mulan" and was about to take some Motrin. Her last epidural morphine dose had been in the OR, and we were hopeful that she would be able to manage without it so that she can be released from PICU. She appeared to be a little uncomfortable at times, but didn't seem to be in a lot of pain. She did have a little trouble keeping the juice they gave her down, but they said that it was probably a little early for her to be eating since she'd had a breathing tube for her surgery.
We arrived at PICU at 5am this morning. She was awake and alert and talked to us a good bit more. She has been requesting to watch "Sleeping Beauty" since last night, which is unfortunate because neither us nor the PICU has a copy! She asked Scott to go home and get her some videos, so he is on his way home at this minute to bring back Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and more. We had to leave at 6am and the next visiting hours don't start until 10am, so he will have plenty of time to go home and come back. She told him "it's probably a long way, okay?"
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