Up and down

Grant's last couple of days have been pretty up and down. This morning, when he woke up, he was in a good mood. For breakfast, he had a little cereal and almost a whole banana. I also tried to get him to eat a Pop-Tart but he was having none of it... so I ate it. You snooze, you lose, pal. On a serious note, it was really great that he ate that much for breakfast. This seemed to give him more energy than he's had in a while. He was laughing and acting silly, which of course made mine and Amy's day.

Then he took a nap around 11 AM and when he woke up, things were not going so well. It was like his evil twin snuck in the room and traded places with him while Amy and I were busy talking with the nurse or something. He was hard to get along with, very irritable, and didn't eat or drink much of anything the rest of the day.

He is having a very difficult time trusting anyone who comes in the room that he does not know. The first couple of days were very traumatic for him because every few hours someone new was coming in the room to stick him with a needle. We tried to help by telling him that they were there to make him feel better but then that person would hurt him by sticking him with a needle. That's not easily reconciled by a 3 yr old.

It appears that he has completely lost faith in the hospital because he says multiple times a day that "he wants to go home". We still haven't come up with a good reply for that one. He says this even though the nurses don't have to stick him with needles anymore. He's just done. At this point, there is nothing you can say that will make him ok with being in the hospital.

Like I said at the beginning, he had a good morning and we are very grateful for that. We're looking forward to those good mornings becoming good days.