GOING HOME!!!

Today is go home day for us....and we are very excited to do so. Over this past 8 days here we've met with each CF doc individually, both social workers, the nurse coordinator, child life, the chaplain and The Bridges hospice team. We feel secure in our right now plan, I'll call it. We'll continue the IVs for a week, bring him back to clinic and then decide then what the next step will be, and so on. I don't feel we're ready to make big, concrete hospice verses hospital decisions and I feel relieved to have finally realized that we don't need to yet. That nobody expects us to. That its perfectly ok to live in each day and when things progress, just go with the flow. I like that. So we'll meet the local hospice team and see what they're all about, and keep it in our mind, I crave flexibility. I don't feel comfortable yet saying home verses hospital. We're very connected to each one, for many different reasons. But I need to know it's ok to just have these conversations and over the next few weeks or hopefully months and MONTHS we'll just make each small decision as it becomes necessary...and it wont be as daunting as making one large decision right away. The Doernbecher CF team is extraordinary. They are compassionate. They are very loving and loyal. and most of all, they are heart broken over this as well. They are extended family by every sense of the word and to just walk away from them and not have them help see us thru every aspect of CF, the dyeing as well, is just unimaginable to me. You'd never probably understand that connection unless you've walked in it, which unfortunately many of you have, and I pray that more of you don't ever. But having intense doctors help and intervention since i was 18 weeks pregnant with Conner man and now 7 years later to just walk away from it all, is beyond my capabilities. They've been our miracle. These doctors saw me thru my pregnancy, they helped drain his little bladder when he was in my tummy struggeling desperately for life, they've seen him since he was brand new in the nicu and thru 26 different admits, thru his 105 degree fevers from the Zosyn, thru his rushed make a wish, and I simply can't live without them. and i'm so glad we don't have to.
So yes we are going home today from the hospital...not because he's well, but to just keep living each day and enjoy it and find the quality in each second until there is no more. and I think it's kinda wierdly beautiful. So he'll do another week of IV's then go to clinic and decide the next week and so on. and for now, that is the most perfect plan I can imagine. get out of here, and live our lives, fill his remaining time with experiences....fulfill his every wish and condense 60 years of living into whatever time remains. Such beauty i think. I think we'll all be better for it. Facing death forces you to live in the now and do each thing you can't make it thru your life without doing. and I'm excited to see where all we go...I do know though, that first stop is a visit and meeting with his best pal Grover here in Portland within the next week...Sesame is in town for some shows and Grover can't wait to meet Conner man. And from there...let the experiences roll..........
Love
Sarah