Christmas morning Aimee woke up to a gift bag from the hospital. Typically in the past they had been involving the caregiver in picking out gifts. This year was… actually kind of a hurtful method. I would rather they had not given her anything. They filled the bag with things that an almost 13 year old girl would typically enjoy, a teen joke book, an adult coloring book, a novel. Probably for most of the patients who had to be here for the holidays, this method of gifting was a fun surprise. For kids in this part of the hospital… I imagine I was not the only family that found it to be a painful reminder of what their child is unable to do.
Aimee slept the day away today. Even set off the low heart rate alarm a few times. I’m sure she was exhausted from the past couple of awake days. The moments she was awake though, she had a pleasant, peaceful look. Even a small grin.
Neither of the lumens of her PICC line would draw back for labs tonight. Normally she has a bunch of labs done on Sunday and Wednesday nights, but they were unable to draw them. Hoping to get it resolved with a simple treatment tomorrow, but it does make me more hesitant to keep the PICC line at home.
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