GG reports on Jasper
Today we have a guest blogger… Tess’ mom, Maureen – otherwise known as Gorgeous Gran, or MoZiLLa – who is visiting for a month. GG provides an update on Jasper who is in the hospital.
A wee update on my precious littlest man – he is still in hospital and will be there for another day or two I am guessing. He is certainly breathing better than he was but today with just a little exertion he was huffing and puffing and wheezing. He has a nasty cough and when he really gets going he goes bright red and still vomits and gags sometimes. On my shifts today he did not vomit, not sure about the others. He is eating the food brought from home which I am sure is very comforting for him. Tess stayed the first night with him, I did the next two and tonight Tess is with him again. Charles home tomorrow after leaving his hotel in Australia at 3:30 a.m! and gets into HK at 3p.m. I hope to convince T and C to allow me to stay with JJ tomorrow night if he is still in hospital. (GG & the kids on the Star Ferry, Sunday Feb 26.)
I have lost count of the number of rules I have broken at the hospital and they still continue to treat me very nicely. Sadly for them I just do not see the necessity of wearing a mask and so rarely do – some of them get quite firm with me, others simply ignore me. This afternoon 3 doctors came into the room all masked up and I sat there and chatted with them with mine hanging around my neck!! I am better behaved about wearing a gown all the time but certainly got booted out very quickly the other day when both Tess and I arrived to visit. ONLY ONE VISITOR AT A TIME!
We have now resorted to the wonderful, heaven-sent portable DVD player!!! At this point JJ is getting a little short on this staying in hospital gig. And we all agree that if watching DVD’s 24/7 helps then let him do it. When he does take breaks we now can let him out of the crib as he has been taken off the machine that measures his oxygen level and pulse rate. So he and I played lots of rounds of "Ready, Steady, Go" around the room. But even he, who is so jovial and good tempered, is getting pretty fed up with it all.
And just so you know – not only must you be out of bed at 6:30a.m. sharp but you really shouldn’t be making up the cot for yourself until 11p.m. I broke that rule two nights in a row!! I also ran the DVD player on Chinese juice this morning – oblivious to the fact that I was really and truly breaking a rule!! Ah well 🙂
Thank you for all your concern for JJ and for your prayers.
And on Saturday I leave this fair land and head back to my darling husband – so looking forward to that, I can assure you!!
