Good Day/Tough Day

Watching the pool guys work

Clinic day is always such a mixture of emotions.  Bella is always talkative and smiling when we get there.  She told everyone about her bladder infection, talked about our garden from last year (that got too much rain and rotted in the ground!), talked about the garden from the prior year that the turtles ate, told the Pharmacist about her meds and how often she took them, just a bundle of info!  She is now 42 inches tall and her weight is 42.8 lbs!  That put her in the 94th percentile!! THAT is such great news...she is kicking CF's butt!!!  She saw her "green sheet" the moment the Dietitian/Nutritionist came in and couldn't wait to get it! She was so happy!!.....Then came the "Swab Lady"...Oh how her mood changed, the struggle began, tears flowed and it took four of us to get her to open up and let the nurse swab her throat. And then it was lab time for annual blood work. Daddy holds her on his lap and we try so hard to make her understand that it's not a shot and she won't feel it once they numb her arm but she just can't deal with it sometimes.  But we got her blood drawn and it was over, but she had "had" it..she'd screamed at the nurses to "get your stinking hands off me!"...it was too much for her today. She cried all the way home..being tired didn't help..being stressed out only added to it. Even a yummy chocolate shake wouldn't help.."I can't stop crying to drink it, Grammy"..so cuddles when we got home and a nap on Grammy's lap helped. Spending the night here helped as well.  Thank you, Daddy, for coming to pick her up only to have her tell you she wanted to stay here instead. "I love you Daddy, but I would really like to sleep here tonight."  And sleep she did..she was sound asleep by 10:00 and didn't move all night and slept in until after 8:00.

So today is going to be a "girl's" day...she wants to hang out, take a bath, hunt vampires and werewolves (yep..that's her kind of "girl" stuff!

Just being goofy!

...  We will play and have fun. She deserves it.