wee one update

Little Janey is still fighting the RSV at home. Every other day this past week has been spent at the doctor's office or at the hospital, but each time, she has returned home to sleep in her bassinet by her mother's side of the bed.

The visits to the hospital were for suctioning out her breathing passages. I could describe it but choose to just say that while the suctioning is very helpful for her, she totally does not like it at all. The respiratory therapist made a lame attempt to convince us yesterday that it was actually a good thing that she is so small because older kids are bigger and stronger and they usually kick the heck out of their parent's chins while the parents valiantly attempt to hold the child still.

I don't want to leave the impression that he was anything other than very good at what he does. He was kind, competent, and very concerned about this tiny little girl. He watched her so closely after the procedure, trying to decide whether or not she needed to be admitted to the hospital, so when Jessie asked if he would send his own child home if he or she was in Janey's condition, we waited as he carefully considered the options and then responded that he thought she would be okay at home, and yes, if she were his child, he would take her home, knowing that he could bring her back at any time if she seemed to be distressed.

I just talked to Jessie. She and Cory and the girls were walking home from the burger shack across the street from the park that is near their house. They had played at the park and stopped at the burger place for some burgers and ice cream. Janey went along in the baby sling Jessie's friend, Emily, made that snuggles Janey up close to Jessie's body and shields her from everybody.

At the burger shack, Jessie thought she and Breanne could share an ice cream cone, so she got one and started sharing it with Breanne. That's when she realized Breanne, who is less than two, was saying sentences, like, "Mama ice cream please mine!"

The sound of Jessie's voice as she told me about today was so much lighter, so much happier, so full of hope and so much like our Jessie that I think everybody must be on the way to better.