Pics from University Hospital

These are some pictures we took while Emma was in the hospital. Blogger would not let me do what i wanted to do with them, so they are just chucked on here in a row. I have to figure out how to do what i want to do with my pictures on here! For now, i'll put a little commentary about the pictures under each one.




This was how she was for the first few days. SO EXHAUSTED. We were able to cheer her up with some stuffed animals, however. Bebe even made a trip to the zoo to get the red panda you see in this picture!




Even hugging the stuffed animals didn't always help! She loved the Pink Google that Aunt Eness and the cousins had delivered to her from the gift shop. She basically sat holding her "stuffies" for the first few days, watching the Disney Channel on the TV over her bed. Let me just say that if i never again see another episode of The Wizards of Waverly Place, it will be too soon.





Will hogging the big (and only semi-comfy) seat in the room. This would be the chair that Kimberly and I crammed into in an attempt to get some sleep before Emma's surgery. Needless to say, we had no luck whatsoever. This is actually a pullout, where i slept (or Darren did) each night.




Lauren had the right idea. Why sit on an uncomfortable chair when Emma's using less than half of the bed? One of the thousands of interns/residents/doctors that came by to check Emma out at regular intervals saw the girls sitting together on the bed and said "Oh, are they twins?".




Up and around! For the first few times she was up, Emma walked all hunched over like a little old man. She didn't enjoy the getting up and moving around part because she felt dizzy and had more pain. However, we dragged her and her pole down the hall to the playroom at the end of the hall and played games of hangman on the chalkboard.




Discharge day! We were SO excited to be getting out! Sammy and Bebe came to pick us up, and Sam got to share the wheelchair with Emma. He looks a little anxious because the male nurse who had wheeled us out to the parking garage had just popped a bit of a wheelie with the chair.