McAyla is home!

Today would have been the start of Mic's 8th week of being in hospital, but instead she is home with us!

It's so unbelievable to have her home. The whole week she has been really anxious about coming home, and now that she is here, I don't think she can quite believe it herself. She keeps waking up in the night and saying how she wants to go home, and I keep reassuring her that she is home.

She also worries continuously about her medicines running out and also when she can have the hospital bracelet off. She is still experiencing a lack of short term memory, so if you visit her and she goes over the same things, don't get annoyed, it's just her brain trying to get the messages across.

Getting MJ in and out of the car with the wheelchair is a bit of a mission, but she handles it all really well. The process we go through is: we push her to the front door on the commode (portable loo), she then has to stand up, step off the stair at the front of the house, turn, sit in her chair, push her to the car, stand, turn and place her bottom on the seat. Voila she is in the car. We are also having to assess places we can go with her, for disabled access, long before we even get there.

All things said and done, I'm just really glad she's home. I'll go through all the hardship of transferring, as long as she is home with me.

During this last week MJ has learned to stand for a lot longer, she has managed to transfer her weight from one leg to another, physio had her in the parallel bars, so she could learn to walk. MJ walked the length of the bed whilst one of the physio's held her waist and the other held her right arm.

Mic is a changing picture every week. All the medical staff have been so amazed by her progress. I took Mic back to ICU earlier in the week to give them a thank you card. Very emotional for me to go back in there. None of the nurses that looked after Mic were on duty at the time. There was a docotor that remembered us though, although he couldn't quite remember why. When we left, he obviously had a look at the records and soon after came up to the ward. He spoke with the nurses and then came to chat with me. He told me that he couldn't believe the progress Mic has made thus far. He admitted that they never thought Mic would ever wake up fully. There were 2 other cases of kids being knocked over by cars when MJ was in ICU. The doc told me that whilst each of the kids were doing different things, MJ was by far the least responsive. He also said that he was going back to ICU to tell everyone what wonderful progress Mic has made. (I gave them the details of the website so they can keep up to date with her progress.)

I'm going to rush downstairs now to see if my little princess is awake and make her some pancakes for breakfast.