Farewell Childrens Hospital...

We were only there for one night this time but, it is so nice to finally feel like we will most likely never again be overnight residents of Seattle Childrens Hospital. We have definately had a love hate relationship with the hospital. Although I hate the pain and craziness Bennett has been through, we couldn't have been through it at a better place. We will forever be thankful for the team that cared for Bennett during his hardest times. They made it as comfortable as possible for Bennett and all the family members that stayed and cared for him. He had some Dr & nurse vistors yesterday that just came by to visit and were thrilled to see him doing so well. I can honestly say Bennett and I have made some true friends there and they seem to genuinely enjoy seeing Bennett grow up. We look forward to showing him off to everyone on his routine check-ups there for a couple years.

I made the mistake of thinking that there was any such thing as an "easy" surgery. Although this was nothing compared to a couple of his other procedures and we were only there one night, it was still really difficult and scary to see him in pain. It didnt make it any easier that I didn't sleep until 5:30 AM because Bennett wanted to be rocked and they wouldnt let us put him in bed with us. He had a very long night and I was honestly a bit nervous that he wouldn't be ready to go home this morning.

But right about 7 (his home wake up time) he woke up and started wiggling to get down... I put on his little Crocks to attempt to keep germs from his feet... and he was off. I let him leave his room on his own, something he has never been able to do and that was the end of it. I looked at the nurse and said "we need to get going or this is going to be a problem" I would love to say that I kept him from rolling around on the floor of his hospital room, but no such luck. It was truly the only way to keep him from running out the door at every chance and ending up in places such as behind the nurses station and in other patients rooms. Although everyone thought he was super cute we quickly packed and were on our way.

We got some pictures of a few fun animal visits on the way out... I passed these animals numerous times a day while living there and it was fun to see Bennett run over to check them out. We couldn't be happier to have all the surgies in the past and with a smile we bid farewell to being an overnight guest of the hospital.