So today began pretty poorly on the home front.  When I went downstairs to feed Rosey this morning, the rug in front of the laundry room door was saturated with water and when I opened it up - there was two inches of water on the floor from one side of the laundry room to the other.  Surprisingly, while it had begun to seep under the wall and in to the family room - luckily it only seeped out a couple of feet and for the most part remained contained in the laundry room.  It was however still pouring and the source of my flooding, the window well which had filled full of water courtesy of my overflowing gutters (which, once again, had not been cleaned), was filled with about 8 inches of water and it was still flowing in quite fast.  And, due to the lack of grass in the backyard because of the recently completed construction, it was muddy.  UGH.  So needless to say, a couple hours of cleanup later, I got to the hospital.

Miss Finley was wide awake and feisty as ever.  Now that she had awakened from her slumber, she was NOT happy with her breathing tube.  And so there she was, all day long, moving her head from side to side and munching on that tube like it was her pacifier.  They had been trying to keep Finley off of the Verset (sedation medication) in preparation for her extubation tomorrow because Verset takes a little longer to leave the system and they want to be able to easily wake her after the extubation to see how she does.  Anyway, Finley has ended up getting a dose of Verset every hour on the hour because as soon as it starts to wear off, she's at it again.  I think that overnight they are going to start a very low dose drip of Verset to keep her calm and comfy overnight and to keep her from continuing to kink the breathing tube.  Since they had to use such a small tube, its very easily kinked and twisted and Finley has really been working it over.  I am pleased to see that she has some fight in her as it much mean she is feeling better!

So since Finley's surgery on Tuesday, I've had this weird "coming full circle" feeling (bear with me - this might get cheesy).  When Finley first came to Children's - the cardiologist on call was this doctor named Dr. Gossett and he ended up being the doctor that diagnosed Finley's heart condition.  He sat down with us that first day here and explained everything in detail, talked about her prognosis, what to expect, etc.  And we have always really liked Dr. Gossett and he always reminds us of our first hours at the hospital.  And while I have seen Dr. Gossett here and there in all of the time we spent at the hospital, we ran in to him the day of Finley's surgery and I told him how bizarre I thought that was that he was there the first day and here she was having her repair and there he is again - you know - like coming full circle.  Well today, I was walking down the hall and I ran into this doctor named Dr. Singla.  Dr. Singla is the hospitalist at Lake Forest - he is the Children's physician that is on staff at Lake Forest and he was the doctor that originally identified that Finley was having trouble in the nursery and sent her to Children's.  He works full time at Lake Forest but is on call at Children's like one week a month or something like that so I hadn't seen him since November.  And there he was.   So we chatted and he came to see Finley and he marveled at how big she's gotten and when he left, I was sitting here, thinking again how weird that was that he was the first Children's doctor that Finley had come in to contact with and here I was running in to him after her surgery - like being on this journey and coming full circle.  Perhaps I am getting a little too philosophical here - but I can't help but thinking how interesting it all is.

In any event, Miss Finley is scheduled to be extubated tomorrow afternoon so expect a big update tomorrow night - hopefully its a good one - about how that goes.  And I have an adorable little picture on my camera of Finley today with her hair back in pigtails (it was out of control and needed to be tamed) but when I packed my overnight bag this morning, I failed to bring the cord to transfer off my camera - so it will have to wait until tomorrow when hopefully I will have some breathing tube free pics to post.

I also have an adorable picture that I will post of Nate playing with "Rosey's new friend".  Its a light for our patio that my mom got me for Mother's Day - its a puppy that has a solar light inside.  Anyway - Nate has been dragging it around the house, chasing Rosey with it telling her to "meet her new friend".  Its been priceless.  Nate and Daddy also had a special treat tonight - Daddy took him to see How to Train a Dragon in 3D - apparently Nate didn't think much of the glasses though and chose to watch the movie blurry, sans glasses.  Oh well.