I am home in my own bed!!!

Physically and mentally exhausted! No more hospital lobby or the ICU chair...I finally came home last night to sleep in my own cozy bed and to spend some time with the kids - thanks to my poor sister taking over hospital duty and day/night duty...another sister who slept on the floor in the lobby got bitten all over by something and is itching...so I swap out with another sister and she gets severe allergies...another sister fell sick and lost her voice (laryngitis).. lucky I have 3 sisters so I could put them all to the test! That's what they get for finally meeting up together after 17 years.

Sanvi & Ronak were thrilled to see me. Spent the whole day with them - library, park, McDonalds Happy Meals (thanks AF Web team :-) I have never bought into the concept of the Happy meals with toys - but I indulged them today. And finally Sanvi declared to me as she dozed off "Mommy, this was the best day of my life!!" Such simple acts leads to such complete joy - only kids can measure happiness in such short term milestones...wish we as adults did the same...instead of waiting to reach that summit - that keeps getting further away...we are so hard on ourselves...I should learn from the kids more often and measure my happiness at the end of the day... if nothing catastrophic has happened - I guess I am happy.....

Anyways, they asked me a zillion questions - Did they take out Daddy's spleen? Can a person live without a spleen? Will he grow a new spleen? What exactly does the spleen do? Is it ok for him to not have a spleen? Will this mean he will get more infections? They have been listening to fragments of conversation that my folks at home were having I guess. Ronak is the true engineer - his mind is on the dialysis machine with all its dials turning and the tubing with the blood going around it...it's fascinating for him to watch the "pee bag"!!