Day 8 - Going home (Really)

Finally, we are going to be able to get out of here. Heather slept well last night. Once she got the right combination of Benadryl and Ativan on board. 

Today has been fairly busy. Heather had the energy to get up and take a shower. Doctors required another walk down the hall before they gave us the green light to go home. Another site cover change on her PICC line, which was fairly painful for her because she has had a pretty bad skin reaction to the tape that was used in previous covers.  They put a different type of cover on this time that usually works for people with sensitive skin. Calling her skin sensitive is quite the understatement right now.  

Now, the bags are packed, discharge orders are in hand, and looking over at the bag of IV potassium that is being infused, I would say that we are just a few minutes from being able to get on the road. 

Thanks everyone for all of the support. I think that tomorrow, Heather may be able to get back on the computer and continue the blog herself, not to mention answer a bunch of emails and facebook messages that she has been unable to get to due to the exhaustion, trouble getting her eyes to focus, and inability to make her fingers hit the proper keys to form actual words :)