You know you’ve been at the hospital a little too often when everyone knows who you are.
I know. I don’t blend in well. 😂 The hair is obviously a factor.
I am most often at the children’s hospital with one child, but today I was there with another one. I checked in with someone who knew who we were. I visited with another person who I can’t say I’ve ever met, but who seemed vey familiar with us. Maybe she was just like that 🙂 I am, too. I ended up chatting with a little girl who wanted to tell me about seeing orcas in the outdoor pool that morning until someone came to retrieve me and our lemon drop for our appointment.
And guess what! SHE knew us! She stumbled over the lemon drop’s name and then laughed out loud and told me she knew who I was, but forgot the baby’s name! It was SO funny! Turns out she is good friends with Rae, so while we walked back to the room, we talked a little, and she definitely knew some of our details. It was pretty adorable 💜 Gave me some warm fuzzies.
We were brought into a room with a group of therapists and a doctor, and were quickly joined by a few more professionals. And it was SO fun because at least half of them were familiar! It felt a little strange when the doctor knew me when I didn’t recognize him! 😬 That was unexpected! But of all people, the SLP who follows us for feeding therapy came into the room, and was SO happy to see us! And I was really happy to see her, as I tried to plead our case for something and was feeling some pushback. This person agreed with me! Woohoo!! It goes SUCH a long way to have familiar people in the room!
I got out of there with a couple of prescriptions, a letter for the ministry, and some follow up plans. I felt heard and understood and validated, and the lemon drop is being well tended to in every possible way! I found out after coming home that the prescriptions that need filling need to be filled at the Medicine Shoppe in Martensville, which I’m actually really excited about 🤣 They are some of the COOLEST people over there, and I’ve been missing them since no one has needed a compounded prescription recently! So it’ll be fun to see them again 🤣
This stuff is kind of weird, I know, but its really our real life stuff these days and I ache to share more about all the things we go through and learn about. And the babies we LOVE 😍 Goodness its hard not to share them on here! I wish I could tell you all the successes with social workers, birth parents, family supports, etc etc etc. God is covering these children, it is blatantly clear, and today specifically, it was REALLY evident.
Thank you, Lord, for protecting these babies!!!