We decided to make the most of our day. I checked in with the transplant team at 11am and bed availability wasn't looking promising. We decided to head over to the Jr Children's Museum and Zoo. Admission is always free!
I like free. It was a really fun place to burn a couple hours waiting to hear back from the hospital. Owen liked the bat cave exhibit the most, but we saw lots of little animals.
We headed indoors to the museum after walking the zoo and Owen loved exploring. There was a real beehive exhibit and it made me cringe. Owen loved the Solar Power machine the most.
There was a cool exhibit on creating energy and electricity using water and wind. This was one of those balls you put your hand on and the electricity sticks to your hand.
We were on our way out and followed a crowd of families to the park around the corner. Palo Alto has a lot of great parks for us to explore. This one was really crowded, but it had a lot of things to do.
Owen was totally worn out, so he preferred swinging for a good 45 minutes. The weather could not have been more gorgeous. My guess is 70 degrees with a light breeze.. it was wonderful!
We stopped on our way home to grab some hand soap. Hotels never have antibacterial soap, only those smelly bars of soap and I can just imagine the bacteria growing on them as they sit in the little soap dish.
I finally heard back from our transplant team around 3pm and there are no beds available at all tonight. I was discouraged. Stressed. I just want to get the ball rolling and moving forward. I had a plan and it's not working out the way I envisioned. We were hoping to be outpatient by the weekend for Daddy and Kam to drive up and spend Father's Day and our Anniversary together. At this rate, he may still be inpatient. I know things come up.. emergencies happen. It has just been a lot of rearranging schedules, oxygen delivery, ect.
I have been speaking with the RMH daily and we are on the top of the list. We have this hotel covered until Sunday thanks to our private insurance. I am trusting that things will work out. We are going to walk around the outdoor shopping center and maybe even get a treat tonight. A small date with my boy and then back for a movie and some cuddle time.
I miss my baby girl and hub already. Owen woke up this morning and said.. "I miss Bo and Daddy." It's going to be a long road ahead.
3 comments:
I've been praying for you guys all day today. Keep your chin up Momma.
Regular hand soap works best!
There is a great deal of evidence that the use of antibacterial soap in the normal household is unnecessary and causes far more harm than good, both to human health and the environment.
Since 2000, the American Medical Association (AMA) has been advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to closely monitor and possibly regulate the home use of antimicrobials. At the AMA annual meeting in 2000, Myron Genel, chair of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs and a Yale University pediatrician, said, “There’s no evidence that they do any good and there’s reason to suspect that they could contribute to a problem” by helping to create antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
And just this past fall, the FDA finally announced that it is considering restricting antibacterial soaps, which its panel of health experts overwhelmingly said have not been proven any more effective than regular soap in preventing infections among average consumers. Actions the FDA could take include changing product labels, restricting marketing claims or pulling the products off the market altogether. The advisory panel told the FDA that consumer products that include bacteria-fighting ingredients should be required to have scientific data proving they prevent infections.
At issue are antibacterial products that include chemicals such as triclosan, which is known for its bacteria-fighting properties. However, antibiotics kill more than the disease-causing bacteria to which they are directed. They kill any other susceptible bacteria. Once the ecosystem is cleared of susceptible bacteria, resistant bacteria can multiply and dominate the environment due to lack of competition, resulting in drug-resistant “superbugs”. The phenomenon can be likened to weeds that have overgrown a lawn where the grass has been completely destroyed by an overdose of herbicides.
The ubiquity of the antibacterials in soaps “is a worrying thing,” lead researcher Dr. Eli N. Perencevich of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, told the media at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in New Orleans in 2000. He said at the level of usage of antibacterial soap in the typical home, bacteria could easily develop that would be resistant to both antibiotics and the antibacterial soaps themselves.
Microbiologist Dr. Stuart Levy of Tufts University told an International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 that strong antibacterial cleaners are needed only when someone in a household is seriously ill or has low immunity. He said that older cleansers such as soap and hot w
Hang in there! I hope you can get into RMH ASAP and that things start to head in the direction you had envisioned. Being away from home and family is the pits... at least you have good weather... Praying for your family. Heart Hugs
Post a Comment