Long, sleepless night

I don't know how the whole night can disappear with so little sleep. Actually, it's all the stuff that nurses need to do overnight that make sleeping hard. Poor Riley didn't fall asleep until after 11pm. Then he was woken up at 2:30am so that labs (blood) could be drawn from the PICC line in his neck. Unfortunately. the PICC line wasn't functioning properly--probably a clot in the line somewhere. But it took 15 minutes of screwing around with it, along with a temp reading and a blood pressure before Riley was able to relax again. I imagine, though, that it's hard for him to ever fully relax because he never knows when another doctor or nurse will come in to poke at him. There was something else at 4am, but I can't remember what. And then at 5:30am, the nurse has some kind of solution to put in the PICC line to disolve any clot. Then at 6:15am, she came in to see if the clot was disolved and to draw labs. Fortunately, it worked, but it was a hard night. Ken arrived soon after, and I'm on my way out to get a bit of sleep.

There was some progress made with eating yesterday and Riley did get out for a ride in the red wagon, but Ken will hopefully update you all a bit later. I need to head to the apartment for a little sleep. Thanks to Marcy and Jeff for letting us monopolize their apartment!