Got to spend a half day yesterday and today, hanging with my little pal. He was finally released from the hospital on Tuesday around suppertime. My daughter-in-law is using up holiday time to be home with him (for his surgery & recovery times), but her work had something going on that they needed her in for a few hours and daycare won't take him because of the pneumonia/surgery recovery (obviously), so I went to look after him for a few hours.
Yesterday he still looked very unwell, very pale, sunken eyes, and not very energetic. Today was a huge improvement - he looked a bit uncomfortable this morning, so we gave him a half dose of Tylenol just to see if that helped any, and it did. By this afternoon, he was about 90% of the way back to his normal self - the sassiness and goofiness was front and centre, so he's improved, LOL.
Yesterday was just snuggles on the couch, reading stories, watching movies. Today was a walk with the wagon around the block, nicely bundled up and then he showed me how to play Minecraft. While he was sleeping, I got a chance to help my daughter-in-law out with some organizing and cleaning she's been wanting to get done - I figured I'd get it done (the plan was for me to come help anyway, at some point), they're all tired and recovering from the surgery ordeal and post-surgical issues - not much else I can do but I can do that. I well remember all the medical stress and exhaustion when my daughter was in and out of hospital so much and feeling too tired to even think about cleaning. Plus, my favorite thing to do is organize spaces, so it was fun for me.
I'm just so glad my pal is finally doing better and we can start enjoying spring and Easter.
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