home...

How sweet it is to be posting this from the comforts of our home. Camryn got her release orders today so home sweet home it is for us hopefully for long time!

The doctors came in this morning with news that so far Camryn's cultures were still negative. They would call that lab at 10:00am to confirm negative results as that would mark 48hours...so we waited. Luckily Camryn slept in until 9:30; because once she heard the possibility of 10:00 she was impatient as can be. As we waited it became clear that the doctors would discharge us if the cultures had remained negative...and as of 7:00 they were negative and it was hard to think that in 3 hours something would show up, but stranger things have happened.

As Camryn and I waited she played on the laptop and I read watching the clock move ever so slowly...finally Dr.C came in and announced, "going home!". Camryn got the biggest grin on her face, she was thrilled. I quickly called my dad to come get us, as keeping a car at UCLA at the rate of parking just seems a bit insane. After I made the call I started packing up the few things we had there. Camryn's nurse came in with discharge papers and I signed off, thankfully we did not have to wait for meds and such because Camryn has a full round of prescriptions at home. Her nurse was great helping us gather any supplies we needed for line changes and such...it was great.

My dad made great time and at 12:15 my phone rang and he was waiting for us. We said our good-byes and walked down an all too familiar hallway to the door that leads to the outside world. Camryn was thrilled to be *out* and when she saw my dad she was just happy as can be.

Home...

Camryn and Wyatt have been going strong all afternoon and quite honestly you would never know that she just spent 2 days in the hospital. Even at this moment they are playing hard and going strong! Boy do they miss each other and make up for the days apart a 100%.

We are thankful to be home...so incredibly thankful! So thankful that it seems that it was only a common cold and nothing more serious than that. We know that any fever will lead us back there, so we are praying that no more fevers are in our future for awhile.

Camryn did great throughout it all, but truly she knows better than most that there truly is no place like home.