We got a Private Room...

...at a price! Alistair has developed a cold and so we have been put in contact isolation. The room we were in was technically a double. They told us last night that they got the okay to have no more double rooms and that they would have only single rooms and we would have this technically double room as a single. Maybe, eventually we might have a roommate, but that wouldn't be for a while. Well, today was the end of a while as we got a roommate this afternoon. He is only a couple of years old and obviously recovering from brain surgery. So, I don't think it would have been too bad, other than feeling like you are walking through someone else's space all the time! Seth has been working on a small cold or something for a while. We have been living in a hospital for almost a month, been so stressed out and haven't been sleeping great...so developing an illness isn't uncommon. He has been very diligent about not passing it on to Alistair. So he could have caught it from Seth, or he could have caught his own from the same experiences we have had! Whatever the reason, Alistair has a respiratory illness (cold) and needs to be in isloation to not pass it along to others. 3 days with masks and gowns on our service providers, but we don't need to. We can do it. And now we have a private room! But I hope his cough doesn't develop too much as I would imagine it can't feel good on a recovering sternum! 

Today was a good day. After a restless night, I was afraid Alistair would want to sleep the day away. He did a great job of staying awake and participating in his therapies. His PT called off the end of therapy this afternoon as she could tell the mind was willing, but the body wasn't. Early this evening, Alistair was given a nice, warm shower. I think he was pretty wiped from the day, feeling a little under the weather with his cold that seemed to come on this morning and then had a nice shower to cap off the evening. Papa is staying with him tonight so we could have a night at home after 2 nights in a row there. Hopefully everyone sleeps WELL tonight!

Tomorrow, Seth has decided to stay away even though he seems to be getting over his cold. Instead, he and his Dad are going to drive over to Kellogg, ID to get our new car at Dave Smith Motors. We bought it before we left for Mayo with the thought we could pick it up once we returned, not planning on having a prolonged stay. At this point, we need to get our car! So I will get a glimpse of what being alone at the hospital with Alistair will be like once Seth goes back to work. 

Tomorrow is another day of therapies. He has music therapy tomorrow, which he had on Monday and seemed to enjoy! Alistair will have intensive therapy schedules Mon-Fri, with some breaks worked in. If you think you want to visit on a weekday, give me a holler the day before and I can tell you when he will be free as we get his schedule in the afternoon. Otherwise, he will be free Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday when therapies don't occur.