It may be some comfort to know that these toddlers don't really want to drive us crazy, they just want to understand how we work.
-Alison Gopnik

Thursday, December 13, 2007

First Hospital Stay

Here is Gage getting one of his many nebulizer treatments. It may appear that he is frowning, but actually, this is what we call Gage's "sleep" face, or for lack of a better term, "sucky-sucky". When Gage gets tired, either during the daytime or night, he grabs his special blanket and starts to suck on his tongue. The nebulizer treatments really calmed him down (during, NOT afterward, as they made him hyper after) and he would do his "Sucky-sucky" during them. Cute, eh?
Gage didn't really have much of an appetite in the hospital (who does??) but here he is enjoying at least one rubbery sausage.
Keeping a 1-year-old occupied while attached to an I.V. was pretty darn close to impossible. One of the nurses brought us a wheelchair to push him around in the day after our overnight stay. Checking out took forever!
Thank God for cable T.V. At least I got to watch "The Biggest Loser" while we were there!

1 comment:

A Day In The Life.... said...

Oh such sad pictures! Glad he made it through the nebs - NEVER fun.