Spending the 4th of July at Phoenix Children's Hospital

Zoë is still at PCH. She has been doing a lot better and is back to her normal self. She slept through the night and has been awake most the day, taking her normal short naps. She is also talking a lot more today and has been smiling all day. We had some good cuddle time today. She caught me up on all that happened to her. It was a good conversation. She has been very happy today. She still has a small cough, but it is not bad at all. Even the nurses commented how much of a good baby she has been and are surprised how fast she got over the flu. Most kids spend weeks trying to get over this type of flu. She is a fighter, she always has been (even all the way back since I got pregnant).

She has had no apnic spells since she was at the PICU. We were given a tentative release date of Monday. There are two reasons, 1) we need to have 48-72 hours of no apnic spells, early Sunday morning is 48 hours. 2) It is the holiday weekend, so the doctors that need to see her before her release are not in until Monday. They are also not able to download the data from the apnea monitor until Monday, because of the holiday. We are also waiting for news about the pneumonia. She also took out the IV in her head. We were not in the room when she did it. Every single piece of equipment, monitors, IVs, CPAP, etc., that she has had on her since the NICU, she has taken off at least once. I don't know how she does these things. She is a very smart little girl.

We continue to see nurses that took care of Zoë in the NICU :) They all say "didn't you leave...why are you back." At least today we can say that she is better and we are almost out of here. We also saw Fernando Nieto here, his baby is in the NICU. So we understand what they are going through with their baby. They are almost going home also.

Her hospital room is facing in the direction of Indian Steele Park, so we will have a front row seats to the fireworks. These will be her first. At least we will not have to be in the heat to see them. We did put on her 4th of July outfit, she wanted to be festive (thanks to Tia Bere, who gave it to her). She also got a stuffed bear from the hospital to celebrate. This was very nice of the staff.
Oh I forgot, we also found out that she is ticklish. The nurse today also tickled her by accident and she smiled with a tiny giggle.

Here are two pictures from yesterday. Happy 4th of July!