Ariel, Do you want to go HOME?

So a cute little story. Ariel is still very uncomfortable, but I wouldn't say in excruciating pain anymore. She gets a dose of some sort of pain med every two hours so we are getting on top of it. She gets turned side to side and sometimes right on her back every two hours as well but she really likes some positions better than others and really likes one side most of all. The doctor came in this afternoon just to talk to me and find out how I am feeling about taking her home tomorrow (Friday). I tell him to sign us up, I would take her home tonight if he would let me. I really hate being in the hospital taking care of her. I would much rather be at home with my own stuff and not have to constantly ask and then wait for things. She came off of oxygen early this morning, they took her central line out this morning and she is completely off of the IV meds as of this afternoon. So he says, "I can't let you go home tonight because her wound drain is still putting out too much but if it will slow down tonight I will take that out in the morning and remove her Foley catheter and you can go home tomorrow." YES! Ariel is complaining about everything. No she doesn't want to move off of her favorite side, no she doesn't want her medicine, no the nurse can't take her blood pressure, no she really doesn't want to get in her chair, no she doesn't want to do her respiratory therapy you get the picture. At one point she is protesting fairly loudly that she doesn't want to be on the side she is on for one more min even though she has only been there for approximately 15 min and I am trying to have this conversation with her that goes something like. "I am very sorry Ariel but you have to stay on this side for at least another 45 min you have to move around. I promise to move you then." The WHOLE time she is shaking her head no, no, no and she will not look at me. So I say to her, "Ariel, look at me." To which she is still shaking her head no, no, no. So I say to her, "Ariel do you want to go home tomorrow?" Her eyes popped open and she is looking at me like "really?" to which I explain to her that she has got to do this stuff so that they know we will do them if they let us go tomorrow and I really want to go tomorrow so she has got to quit complaining. And what do you know? She quit complaining. The nurse in the room says something along the lines that she was told that Ariel couldn't communicate. But from what she just witnessed Ariel understands everything that I just said to her and communicates very effectively. Well- no duh! So our hope and prayer tonight is that she gets to come home tomorrow. I don't care if I have to drive her to the doctors every day next week! Oh and by the way the surgeon says this is a world record for a kid like Ariel:) So thank you all for the prayers, fasting, priesthood blessing, all of the individuals that took it upon yourselves to put her name in the temple and just in general good thoughts being sent her way. Prayers are answered and I know she is one of our Heavenly Father's choice spirits and it is such an honor to not only have her in my life but to be her mother. Our family would be so different without her in it and the lessons that she teaches us everyday:) I will let you know how things go tomorrow. Tam