Tokyo '07 - Chapter 3c: The Visit

Tyler-Doctor

The day ended with a trip back to the hospital to drop of some things for the Mrs. and to check in on Tyler. The one thing that sucked, was that on the Pediatric in-patient floor you could not take anyone under the age of 14 in to the room area so Mina and I had to meet the Mrs. in the elevator lobby.

Mina, obviously confused with everything going on in the past few days was visibly happy to see her. I then took my turn to go in and see the 'lil guy. The thing about Japanese Hospitals is that they are not big on the whole private room thing. To get one costs some Yen. We got one. But to get to it, I had to walk past that ward, and that was both depressing and reminded me of my time in the same hospital with Meningitis. I was in a room with 6 other men who were seriously ill. This was different, much more depressing as they were all kids.

Nothing sinks the soul more than seeing rooms full of sick children. I just tried not to look too much and made my way to Tyler's room. When I got there, the doctor as in the picture, was administering medication through myst directly to his nose/mouth. He was a bit lethargic, but then I told the doctor that I wanted to see if he responded to my usual way of getting him to smile.

I know this sounds wierd, but he loves it. I basically take his feet in my hands and squeeze them as if I am milking a cow. When I did that he turned his head to me and began to coo and smile. Then got a bit excited. The doctor was very surprised and pleasantly optimistic about his condition. But nonetheless it was not a good feeling to see him like that.

So for the next 5 minutes or so, I got him to smile and forget his condition for a bit. Then the Doctor finished the mist session and had to then clear his sinuses of all of the mucus with a vacuum tube. This was the really hard part. He wasn't happy about that at all. I am glad Mina wasn't there, she is quite the over protective big sister.

When the doctor finished, I tried to make him smile again, but he just kept looking at me as if he was begging me to get him out of there. I had to go. Went back out, said the goodbyes to the Mrs. who will be standing vigil over him while I took Mina back to the Hotel.

She is doing better, although I couldn't give her any dinner as she was still throwing up. So a bit of medicated water and her anti-biotics for her ears were administered. Gave her a bath and put her to bed by 7:45. She crashed hard. I am not far behind and we will have to see how tomorrow turns out.