8 more days, but who is counting??!?!?

ME! If I would allow myself I would be counting the hours and minutes. Next week I will probably go there, but for now, I will just count days. One week from today, we will be on our way to Omaha! Although I am not excited about the 8 hour drive with Caroline and a bladder that can't contain itself, I am super pumped about Caroline getting a clean cast! Bless her heart, she stinks! As of yesterday, she is officially a stinky baby. Baby powder used to help me control some of the smell, but we are past that phase. Yesterday, Caroline woke up soaked. Soaked to the point that I had to strip sheets and mattress pad! Had to give her an early morning sponge bath, which she was not happy about, plus put the hair dryer on cool to dry her up. The inside of the cast is totally soiled and there is nothing we can really do about it. I change her diaper as often as possible, even if she has had nothing to drink. Better safe than sorry.

I feel bad for the surgical nurses that have to clean her up next Thursday before her new cast is put on. Luckily they have masks to help with the smell!

Our hope is to have her procedure at 9am, under general anaesthesia (boooooo, I hate that stuff), and be in recovery by 11ish. There is no cutting in this procedure, just a big needle going in her hip to make sure all her tendons, muscles, tissues, etc. are doing what they should be doing, then clean her up and put the new body cast on. THEN, 6 weeks later we should be done and done! I cannot tell you how long this 6 weeks have been to me. I start having my own pity party, then I think of Caroline and what she must be thinking and feeling. Poor thing, she is trying every maneuver possible to get herself out of the cast. I am going to ask Dr. E if he could at least let her see her toes in the next cast, maybe even her feet? Then she could have a little grip when we put her on her belly and maybe, just maybe she could crawl a little. She has definitely tried to crawl, but she has no help with her lower body and it's just close to impossible.

It would also help me out tremendously! I am 26 weeks pregnant right now and her little 18lb+casted body is starting to wear on me a little bit! So if she could CRAWL to the diaper change all the better!

Well, that's really all I can think of for now to update. Many of you have asked if this was it for her casting. And as much as I would love to say YES, it's not. 6 more weeks. BUT, she is a trooper and a heck of a lot more patient than me!

I will update you all once we are home from Omaha. It will be a quick trip so chances are we will be home late Friday or early Saturday! Whoah hoah!

Love to all!