Wednesday, September 1, 2010

BINGO!


Wednesday at 10 a.m. is Hospital Bingo time here at Primary Children's. This cool motorcycle blanket is Ben's Bingo prize. Apparently, you win a prize if you participate, sleep, or watch re-runs of BYU football games during Hospital Bingo. It is a very nice, soft, two layer blanket. It came with a tag indicating that it was put together by a boy scout troop for an eagle project. I think that is awesome that some teenage boys are putting together blankets for hospital patients! I mean who better would know what kind of blanket a 12 year old boy would like than some boy scouts! Good job Troop 154 and Mr. Eagle Scout whose name I won't mention on the internet!

Other than that, Ben has been slowly improving today. He has not thrown up, but has mainly been sticking to a liquid diet. He still has a lot of head pain, and we are working to get that under control. We have also moved out of the PICU, into a more comfortable room.

The Dr's are most excited that he has had two seizures today. His surgeon told him, "Good Job!" This means that we are getting the test results that we need, and might be getting enough results soon enough to do the second surgery earlier. Don't quote me on that, though. So hurray for seizures?!?!

6 comments:

  1. Glad the Dr.'s are getting the info they need!! Did Scott go to work today? Can you take calls at Ben's new room?

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  2. "So hurray for seizures?!?!" There's a sentence I bet you never thought you would say. That's great he's doing a little better. I may try to sneak into the children's hospital here if they give away blankets too.

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  3. Score on the blanket and the seizures! Sorry we have to be happy he is having them though. Hopefully you have a better night and he can get some food soon.

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  4. Hooray on the blanket. Teary-eyed over the pain and seizures. You all are amazing with the positive attitudes. I hope he can graduate to gravy that has mashed potatoes with it soon. (Maybe Annalisa and I can sneak some in with some KFC this weekend). :)

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  5. Hang in there Ben! You are a strong person. Sorry you have to go through all of this, you are in our prayers.

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  6. Just a word of encouragement to both you and Ben. I'm sure you are exhausted Kathy - keep up the good work! They should have a BINGO game for the parents. Ben, I'm sure you are in a lot of pain and I hope you feel better soon!!
    Kathy, you are so clever with your blog comments. (the diet plan) I hope you get hooked on blogging and want to make one about your whole family after this ordeal is over. I'm sure your blog would be way funnier than mine.

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