sigh...

                  This post was meant to be about Feisty Pants'  birthday present.  Her new puppy arrived yesterday. (Yayyy!)  A literally bouncing baby girl named Stormegeddon, Dark Lord of All or Alfie for short.  If that last sentence didn't make sense to you, it's because you are not nerdy enough.  Feisty Pants is a second generation whovian, so she approves.  She was thrilled -for about three hours.  That's when her sat rate (oxygen saturation rate) took a dive and we shlepped her off to the ER.  What started as a simple cold has turned into bronchitis and possibly pneumonia.  And admission into the hospital.  And an IV. And Feisty Pants saying the f-bomb at a nurse several times.  She didn't slug anyone though, so that is progress.

                    So, as I sit here typing, FP is finally sleeping.  And seems to breathing pretty comfortably for a cranky kid with lung issues and probably a virus/secondary infection.  I'm just sitting here trying to catch up on e-mail and type this post.  Thank heavens for free wi-fi in hospitals.  This hospital also gives the parents of minors who are in-patients meals so you don't go scrounging about. These two things may not seem like much, but, trust me, it's a hallmark of a truly civilized society.  Tedium and hunger make you edgy and that's not fun for anybody.  Not the cranky parent or anyone who has to deal with them.  As a bonus, you can easily google any medication, procedure, or medical term that you are unfamiliar with.

                    So this hospital stay so far is not the worst news with Feisty Pants.  She will not likely be transferred -read that as not likely to go into respiratory arrest so no sending her somewhere  far and wide that has a pediatric ventilator.  Hippie Pants, who is under the weather herself, has gone above and beyond the call of family duty to puppy sit during the day so Goo can sleep and at least keep the new member from chewing or pooping on EVERYTHING while we are here on enforced down time.  I guess we will just have to consider this an in-between time. Slow down and hold her until she heals.  Washing all the stuff the puppy has peed on will just have to wait til we get home.