August 2015

We were supposed to take Lydia home on oxygen on August 2, 2015.

I saved this quote on August 7, 2015 and just ran across it today.

Lydia got her trach on August 11, 2015.

I have never felt more alone than I did those 10 days in that PICU room.

I have never cried more than I did those 10 days in that PICU room.

Had we taken her home she may have died from aspiration, CO2 poisoning, asphyxiation.

I cannot re-read these blogs posts or look at her pictures from that time and not cry.

http://lydiaroseriggs.blogspot.com/2015/08/sunday-came-and-went.html

http://lydiaroseriggs.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-scariest-word-in-picu.html

http://lydiaroseriggs.blogspot.com/2015/08/tracheostomy.html

http://lydiaroseriggs.blogspot.com/2015/08/surgery-3-in-8-weeks-time.html

http://lydiaroseriggs.blogspot.com/2015/08/those-cheeks.html