In The Hospital

Ike is in the hospital for the next few days. It’s not like it’s something that we didn’t know was gonna happen or anything. In fact we’ve been putting it off for the past few months, not wanting to have to spend the required 48 hours that is needed for this particular test. Didn’t want to watch him get his head all dressed up like a lab rat with wires, confined to his bed for two days as a computer monitors all brain activity and checks for seizures.

We’re two doors down from the room we stayed in August. Outside his window now is a crane and construction crew working to add three floors to the roof next door. This will block the views of all rooms on this side of the hospital. Mt. Rainier, downtown Tacoma and Wright’s park will all just look like gray-brown cement with dark tinted windows for added accent.

We’re ready for the stay this time. Seems that every time we come back here we’re a little more together, a little more prepared. We got toys, stuffed animals, CD player, meds, blankets and just about anything else we could think of and carry in one trip. We’re close enough to home that going back and fourth wouldn’t be a big deal but once we’re here we rarely leave. We settle down like it’s a cold winter night.

The good news is that Ike is pretty agreeable to the whole thing. Didn’t much like it when they were attaching the leads to his head but other than that he seemed to enjoy it actually. He was downright hysterical when the lady was drawing on his head with a red grease pencil. Thought that was just about the funniest thing he’s seen in quite a while.
He’s got enough lead to move him about the room. When I left him and Sweetie, he was sitting up in his stroller trying to smack a toy we’d brought for him, having a little lunch and staring me down like he was daring me to leave.

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