Day +4

Mina Brigitta is feeling the effects of being away from home. For the past several days, whenever she sees pictures from home she remarks on them: "Sissy house!". Sometimes she gets sad and cries: "I want dis house!" or "Sissy home!". Today she did two things while Keri was here that are pretty indicative of how much she misses her house. In the book "Madeline", the protagonist goes to the hospital to have her appendix taken out. Mina Brigitta saw Madeline's empty bed, and began to cry and talk about "home". Then later, Keri was drawing pictures of babies (one of Mina Brigitta's favorite activities), and drew some happy babies and some sad babies just for fun. Mina Brigitta said the "waah babies" wanted to go home, and she made Keri take the picture of the waah babies out into the anteroom. She did this over and over, so right now there's a stack of drawings of crying babies sitting on the counter in the anteroom.

Otherwise, she had an OK day. She's definitely trending down, but is still awake and alert and playing a lot. She didn't have much to eat again today, and then tonight she had some bloody mucous in her diaper, so that probably explains why.