Day 60 - Sunday February 12, 2012

We went to Jenn's ward today.  Including travel time and just going to sacrament meeting, we were gone over two hours.  Bridgett did great!  She made it through the whole meeting.  She sang some of the songs, etc.  There are a lot of babies and children, so when she made a random comment, no one could hear but us!  She was very tired by the time sacrament meeting was over so we headed home.  There is a small young womens group, so hopefully Stephany will be able to do something fun with them.  Jenn knows all of the young womens leaders and says they are great.  We were able to meet Jenn's friend that had a TBI previously.  I think she was engaged at the time.  Her sweet fiance waited while she recovered (about a year I believe) and they were married.  They now have a baby (hopefully I am relating the story somewhat correctly!).  It was fun to meet her.  She was so sweet and cute with Bridgett.  Bridgett was too tired to visit long, but we will talk more later.  Otherwise, it was a nice day of rest.  We played a little UNO with Bridgett and that was fun. She did much better than when she played in the hospital a while ago.   I tried to do a little bit with coins with her.  She remembered what the coins were worth (initially) but sorting them was frustrating for her.  Some of this probably still has to do with vision.  Anyway, by the time we stopped, she was mixing up the value of the coins. I've been stressing a little about the removal of the peg tube.  Narges at rehab got it scheduled for Wednesday at the Provo hospital.  She said the doctors in Salt Lake said the people that put it in should take it out.  It is a different kind than they use at the University of Utah hospital.  Anyway, Penny mentioned that when they took Courtney's out she screamed, indicating to me that she was not sedated.  I found the papers that they gave me in Provo about insertion and removal.  They said that the peg can be removed by traction with the patient not sedated, but that can cause trauma to the tract and associated complications.  Otherwise, it needs to be removed endoscopically.  I need to call in the morning and find out what is planned, and get it scheduled endoscopically.  She has already had quite a bit of pain at the site and we don't want to complicate things even more. Also, we still have that whole question about insurance coverage for out of network.  The insurance company said that if the in network doctors said we needed to use the doctors that placed the peg and they are out of network, the insurance will still pay in network.  But they might require a note from the doctors stating that.  I guess we cross that bridge when we come to it.  For now, we just need to get the peg out and in the safest way possible for Bridgett.