Discharge!!!

October 31st 2008 - Discharged!!! Melodina will sleep outside the hospital for the first time since January 30th - I can't describe the sense of relief. We've prepared for this several times before, starting last June. Each time something changed before we got out - sometimes within two days of discharge. Melodina was nervous all week. There is still a question of whether the CMV virus is being controlled or not but we are out of the hospital.

Melodina needs to go three times next week as an out patient but she's out!!! She has a long way to go to get her strength back. She has a long way to go to get her immune system fully functional but we had lots of good news this week. Her heart is functioning better than it has since February. Her hearing is improved and any hearing loss is outside of human speech range and her eyesight is the same as it was before she was diagnosed.

Today was Halloween. Sick Kids sure knows how to do Halloween. Melodina enjoyed it thoroughly. Dresses as a surgeon, complete with surgical mask, she roamed the hospital giving chocolates to doctors nurses, cleaning staff and children. She collected a lot of loot herself and she walked further than she as any day since June. All in all a Halloween to remember!