Sunday, October 10, 2010

No visitors for Henry please

To all of those that love this sweet little boy: this is not a rule we want to hear.  And yet, we must follow it.  The nursing staff at Children's Mercy have advised the family that Mr. Henry has been having too many visitors.  Well of course!  We all want to see him and let David & Dana know we are there for support.  But the thing they are reminding us that we must remember is that this little boy has a heart condition and will be scheduled to have surgery very soon.  We have to make our focus on keeping him strong for surgery.  With all the visitors, there is a risk of him catching something and just generally upsetting his system. 

It is my understanding that this no visitors policy will stay in-effect until we hear otherwise.  And just as a forewarning: once we do get word that it's okay to have visitors, we're going to have to be careful to avoid all rushing back up there at once.   I'm trying to think of a good system for this.  Call to see how many visitors are currently at the hospital for Henry/how many he has had that day in order to decide if it is a good idea to head up, or to wait for another day?  Have a schedule of sorts that we can sign up for our day to head up there so we are spacing it out?  I hate to make this so structured, but it does seem that for now that is probably in his best interest.  Please: anyone who has a good idea on how to do this...post it!  I personally haven't been through a situation quite like this before & so I would love to hear about ways that have worked for other people or ideas that you guys think might work well.

Kelli

1 comment:

  1. go to signupgenius.com
    create time slots
    create a password
    email it out to those that need to sign up
    then everyone signs up for a time
    most of all be there for David and Dana even if it's just to sit in quite. I been in their shoes!

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