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Yesterday, Julianna continued to scream at me all afternoon, refusing to sleep even though her little eyes kept rolling up into her head with exhaustion. (The nurses think it may be withdrawal from the monster doses of sedatives she was on.) It was annoying, but nonetheless, good news, because she had the energy to sit up and gripe. And it was all a show for Mommy’s benefit, obviously, b/c after I left for dinner, she stopped screaming and sat in her crib and played, and waved at her royal subjects whenever they stood outside her room.

Today the screaming soon stopped being so cute and instead began to shred my nerves, which is, of course, her intent. Like me at the doctor’s office last Monday, she’s trying to see if she can cause enough misery in her captors that they’ll let her go. If only it worked that way, honey. No, she has to stay in her ICU crib until she’s weaned from her blood pressure meds and her oxygen support has been significantly diminished–Thursday at least. Then we spend some unspecified amount of time out on the main floor before we finally get to go home. Well, that’s the breaks. At least I get to take her home. Someday.

I have not posted till this evening b/c  between the two of them–Julianna and Nicholas–I couldn’t sit at the computer long enough to accomplish anything. It kept shutting down on me. Hospital productivity is done.