American Family Childrens Hospital...

Is really a beautiful place. We got here about 9am this morning, got all checked in and met an array of staff members who were all here to different things to Jaya...although she was not thrilled at all - but really who could blame her. We met our RN and NA for the day - both very nice. Jennifer - our RN, started with some numbing stuff to Jaya's hands (for the IV) and then a RT person came in to have Jaya breath in some lidocain, this was to help numb her throat so they could get the NG tube in, which was NO easy task!! But Jennifer did great....then came the even harder part, the IV. A new RN came in for that and it took all of us to distract Jaya - and even that didn't work....you just feel so helpless, she is screaming and looking at you with the eyes that are saying, "please don't let them do this...it hurts...help" and there is nothing you can do but hold on to her and keep saying it will be fine! But that was not quite the truth yet, her vein in the left hand blew so she had to do it again but in the right hand...this time it worked, but there was plenty of screaming and crying involved.
Then it was time for the go lightly - now this is what they use to clean your bowels out....they put it through the NG tube cause apparently it tastes horrible, but that was hard for Jaya too....I am sure the sensation of the tube and then the feeling of something going through the tube has to be hard.
And just when we thought it was all done, the RN came in and told us that her labs wouldn't work and they had to re draw the blood, she tried to do it out of the IV, but NO LUCK!! So a lab tech had to come up to draw some blood on her, and that was quite challenging too, but he was great - did it very fast!!!
But we got her some more popsicles and this was her after all that........



So after putting 1600ml into the NG tube, then we just had to wait for her to basically poop water....she went a couple of times, watched some movies and listened to her MP3 player, then we were off to the play room.......


Now we are back in her room, she had to have about 400 ml more of the go lightly and then they can take the tube out of her nose, but the IV will stay in the remainder of the stay.
She is doing great and being a champ about the whole thing!!! We will keep everyone posted....I will be staying all week with her and plan to update the blog as often as I can.