Fired up!

I have never seen Rachel so fired up in all of my life. She has always had attitude but Whew!! She has been hot tempered since she opened her eyes. She is getting to the point where she just repeatedly says "go home!" and refuses to do ANYTHING! What a spirited little girl I have. She refuses to be coddled and cared for. Today she said that she didn't like me doing all of this "service" for her. It killed me that she actually used that word! As if I don't do "service" for her every day. I never realized that she was such a control freak. She has decided to single handedly make everyone's life on the medical staff miserable! I cannot do anything right! She wants me to lay by her but then I make her hot and "comfortable" which is bad. (Uncomfortable??) Oh boy! I anticipated that this would be hard but I thought that it would be tiring and emotionally draining, not that it would be difficult to take care of her. Everyone keeps telling me that it is this same "spunk" that will help her get better quickly. She came off of her IV in less than 24 hours of going into surgery and has really been just on oral meds today. Everyone is amazed that she was eating, drinking, and going to the bathroom on her own practically 12 hours post op, which is great considering that the surgery itself was about eight hours! James and Audrey came up to the hospital tonight and she was pretty ornery to them most of the visit. Poor Audrey is so sensitive that she had a hard time leaving her sister here under these "conditions." Rachel says that she hates our new "home!" She all but jumped out of bed and walked out the door with Daddy and Audrey tonight! We have had a few good moments. We ordered chocolate cake and ice cream and watched enchanted. Thank Goodness for CHOCOLATE! A girls best friend. (I don't know who came up with the idea that it was diamonds.) She was also happy for a brief period of time while we were coloring together. I am going to push the doctor to let us go home tomorrow. I didn't think that she would respond quite like this to being here. I think that she will relax and get a lot more rest if we go home because she will quit fighting everyone and throwing fits! I'm surprised that I can't see any red roots in her hair! Thank you all for calling and checking up on us. I think things will get better when we can go home. I am so glad that my Mom is here taking care of my little bud! Audrey has been at school most of the days but it is nice to know that she has had some normalcy. Besides, I think she likes Grammy more than me anyway. Goodnight!