We are happy to start to head home. As we get our discharge paper in order and start to pack up and prepare to leave, we realize that Olivia’s TB test is now showing positive. So the doctors come in look at her and order a chest x-ray to determine if Olivia has TB or is just showing positive due to exposure to TB.
So we have to wait for the order for the chest x-ray. Soon we head down and the x-ray is taken. The scan doesn’t seem to show anything. So a little relieved (still need the official reading) we head back to the room to wait and see what we do now. Shriners has to notify the Health Department since TB is contagious. But Olivia’s x-ray is cleared. We will now need to way a few more weeks and test our entire family. This also means that Olivia can no longer have TB tests, she will have to have chest x-rays in the future. Apparently each time you test someone with a positive TB test, their reaction gets worse and worse.
Daddy and the twins and Jordan come to the hospital to help bring Olivia home. We let them play a little while and then try to figure out how we can get Olivia in the car. We have one of the recommend car seats for the Spica Cast (Britax Marathon) but her cast is almost in a laying or standing position so we really can’t strap her in the car seat. We can get her in it and then or son had to sit on the floor and hold the bar in between her legs to make sure she didn’t slide out. We will have to drive slowly and carefully since two of our children can’t wear their seat belts. This also means that Olivia will basically be homebound until her cast change.
We get home and Olivia is just an emotional basket case. When we finally get her in bed she complains about everything and we have to keep switching her position. She finally falls asleep…
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