Lucy update: awake, coming home soon

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Lucy update: awake, coming home soon

March 29, 2011 by Simcha Fisher

Thanks again for all the prayers and good wishes. My husband says her stitches look really, really good, and she is finally awake, so they will be leaving the hospital soon. He said that the drug they gave her has the side effect of vivid dreams. This is a kid who lives life 200% more vividly than most people already, so I hate to think.

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on March 29, 2011 at 6:50 PM | Reply Cari

Are you handy with a drill and screw driver? This would be the time to install the hook-and-eye lock another poster mentioned. There’s nothing scarier (for a host of reasons) than a child wandering through a dark and sleeping house, full of vivid dreams and nocturnal walking.
Trust me on this one.
on March 29, 2011 at 6:53 PM | Reply Simcha Fisher

That’s not a bad idea. Maybe it would just be easier to put her on a mattress in our room, though.
- on March 29, 2011 at 7:39 PM | Reply Cari
  
  Probably. And I’m betting you’re still so amped up on adrenalin that you would wake up if she so much as stirred in her sleep.
on March 29, 2011 at 7:53 PM | Reply Margaret Mary

Someday this will be a great family story. (Not today, of course, but someday.)
on March 29, 2011 at 8:29 PM | Reply Kelly

Thank God!
on March 29, 2011 at 9:02 PM | Reply jen

glad she’s ok.
on March 29, 2011 at 10:13 PM | Reply Sheila

So glad Lucy’s okay. During our childhood emergencies, my mother would kick into her “Isn’t this the bee’s knees?!” mode, which even then I found strange–charming too, but strange. Now I understand. You have to get through it without losing it. You and Damien did great!
- on March 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM | Reply Jeni
  
  is that what that mode is called? I know it well
on March 29, 2011 at 10:54 PM | Reply sweetridgesisters

I have been thinking of you and praying for you all day. Hope your family is peaceful and safe tonight.
on March 30, 2011 at 7:04 AM | Reply Eileen

I’m glad things went ok. I prayed for a restful night for all of you and will continue to pray for your little Lucy.
on March 30, 2011 at 11:30 AM | Reply Denise

I only just came into the updates. I’m so glad she is going to be OK, and sending up prayers of thanksgiving and requests for quick healing and perseverance for you! Because a kid that active – it’s going to be so much fun keeping her from messing up her stitches. (Coming from a mom who also has a 200% kid who had stitches in his face last year. Sigh.)
on March 30, 2011 at 12:20 PM | Reply jeni

glad to hear she is doing well. God bless you guys!
on March 30, 2011 at 2:26 PM | Reply MamaMidwife

Yeah for stitches!

Mattress in your room. Yes.
on March 30, 2011 at 2:56 PM | Reply lethargic

Speaking of medication-induced dreams … my daughter had open-heart surgery and the anesthesia often gives a person hallucinations. For awhile there as the anesthesia was wearing off, she thought all the wires and tubes were for tying her to the wall so the nurses could poison her. It wasn’t funny then, and I guess it probably doesn’t sound funny to a lot of people, but daughter recovered textbook and is just fine now, so we laugh about it. Then there was my FIL who had surgery and his anesthesia hallucination was that there were hotdogs hanging from the ICU ceiling … much funnier, eh? Glad your little is OK
on March 30, 2011 at 5:26 PM | Reply Tonia

*throws in another vote for sleeping with/near Mommy and Daddy tonight.

I’m glad Lucy’s coming home. It’s hard to worry about your kids properly when you can’t see them.
on March 31, 2011 at 11:15 AM | Reply J H

So sorry to read this. Prayers.
on March 31, 2011 at 3:15 PM | Reply 911mom

Glad she’s heading home. Prayers for speedy healing and restful sleep.
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