Thursday, February 21, 2008

Yes, I'm still alive...

I suppose I should post so that you all do come back and visit my blog! Things in the Stein household are moving along well...we are both busy as usual at work! The kitties are getting along pretty well, although Max still spazzes out and jumps on Chloe once in a while.

Skip and I spent last weekend in Tacoma because our goddaughter, Katrina, was in the PICU for respiratory problems. She has been sick for a few months, but it took a turn for the worse last week. We arrived on Friday, and I was shocked to see that little girl laying there with tubes and IV's hooked up to her. Skip and I spent 11 hours with her Friday night into Saturday morning so her parents could get some much needed sleep. Our job was to make sure she didn't move around too much if she woke up so that her respirator tube didn't get pulled out. The second night we were taking over the night shift again, and Katrina was waking up so much that they decided to take her off of the respirator. It was so awesome because then we could hold her!! By the next day she was sent from the ICU to a regular room!! So in the few days we were there, Katrina got SO much better! We left Sunday feeling very good about our little girl!! We are hoping to see her again soon for her 1st birthday in just a few weeks!!!

Compared to that, my medical drama is pretty tame! For the second time in my life, I broke my pinky toe. I got home from work one night and had JUST taken my shoes off when I walked into the vacuum cleaner as it sat in the hallway. The first time I broke it was when I was in junior high and I walked into a couch! Anyway, I was pretty slow going for a few days. What's really funny is that Skip hurt his big toe, so when we walked together we were both limping. I'm sure we looked pretty pathetic :)