Hard to believe today was dressing change day!

Bernadette had another good day.  She was up most of last night until around 5:00am but was up again by about 9:00am and didn’t sleep much all day except for one nap.  We’re really hoping that will result in us not needing to do any night shifts tonight.   She didn’t get up and play today but she sat up more, interacted with Sarah, the nurse, and played with her new iPad from the Wish Foundation.  She’s starting to want to be up and more active which is so great.

Just before lunch a wonderful nurse, “M.J.” aka Mary Jane came and did a dressing change for us.  I had the honor of removing the old bandage though and instead of two hours it took less than five minutes.  Should have taken less than a minute but we’re making progress slowly.  And I’ll take five minutes over two hours any day of the week.  It was just so weird to have the dressing change come and go like it almost didn’t happen.  Bernadette can’t help but perk up knowing that the old dressing changes are a thing of the past.

We’ve uploaded a picture of baby Ruth.  Hope you enjoy it.  She looks like a perfect sweetie.  Can’t wait to meet her.  Tomorrow Joseph comes home and I’ll bet you ten dollars the first thing he wants to do Saturday morning is go to Revelstoke to see Ruth.  Bernadette would love to go too but she’s afraid of the travelling so she’s content to wait until just after Christmas to see her new niece.