.....When we spoke to the nurses this morning, we were told that as long as the paediatric and medical doctors were happy with the way Maisie is, then we should be able to go home!!! Fingers crossed...
...We eventually saw the paediatric doctors, who said that from their point of view, Maisie's open reduction was a success, there was no complications, and they only needed to do the reduction, there was no need to do the osteotomy, which is fab, however we do have to wait for the medical doctors to say that they are happy for Maisie to be discharged and allowed home....
....Seen the medical doctor in the afternoon, Maisie is fine to go home, but they want her to have some anti-biotics as something is slightly raised in her blood results, so we just have to wait for pharmacy to bring down her paracetamol, nurofen and co-amoxiclav anti-biotic...once they have arrived on the ward the nurses can arrange for an ambulance to take Maisie home on a stretcher....we all know what the pharmacy dept is like in a hospital....."how Long's a piece of string" as to how long the meds will take to come down, oh well, its worth the wait if we get to go home....
....It would have been around 5pm when Maisie's meds were ready, but then her temperature went back up...so the nurses had to get the medical doctor to come and check her over to make sure that she was safe enough to go home as planned! We waited around half a hour for the medic to come and see her, she spent a while reading through Maisie's notes, checking what had been going on over the last 6 days. She came and did some checks on Maisie, and told us that her temperature wasn't that bad as it was the higher side of 37oc, she was happy for us to manage her temperature at home, but stated that should we be unable to control it we would have to bring her back...which we were fine with doing! The nurses booked an ambulance at 6.30pm, and we just had to wait for them to arrive. Maisie fell asleep around 7.30pm, while she was asleep I packed her stuff up from around her cot so that we would be ready to leave as soon as transport came for us....
.....9pm came, still no sign of transport, the nurses tried to ring them to find out how long they would be as it was getting late, but they couldn't get any information on it! Maisie woke up and it was time for her to have paracetamol and anti-biotics, which the nurse gave to her from the drug trolley off the ward. Alan went back to Stevenson House where we had been staying to pack up our stuff, as we both weren't allowed in the ambulance for insurance purposes Alan's mam Maggie was going to take Alan home with all our bags. 10pm came and I was given the thumbs up from the nurse, transport was here, they were just on their way down to the ward....FANTASTIC....we got Maisie comfy on the stretcher, legs propped nicely and they covered her in a blanket to keep her warm and put the strap across her just to be on the safe side, they did ask if I wanted to sit with her on my lap on the stretcher, but there was not a chance I would have been able to hold Maisie for that long, she was really heavy and although I had some confidence with the handling of a child in a Spica Cast, I thought it would be best if she was on it on her own for her comfort. We got home around 11pm, when we got off the ambulance, the driver apologised for it taking as long as it did but he didn't want to go too fast and hit little bumps in the road, so that the journey didn't cause any additional trauma to Maisie, which was really nice....
....I also got to keep the blanket they had wrapped Maisie in lol, oh well never mind, they never asked for it back once they had helped us inside with the bags that I had with me =)....but finally were home and ready to start Maisie's Hippy Adventure.....
Steph xxxx
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