We Meet the Race Car Drivers

Dr. T woke Bailey up this morning at 10:00 because he "was bored". He had a surgery to do but they apparently weren't ready for him yet, so he decided to come up and "get some M&M's". (Hey, Vickie, he LOVES those dark M&M's. Can you bring some more?) He started heaping blankets, pillows, sweatshirts and anything else he could find on top of her. Bailey was pretending to be sleeping . . . then the pile of stuff started jumping because she was laughing underneath there. Dr. T got a kick out of that. Then he ran out of here to do his surgery.

He came back early in the afternoon and asked Bailey if she wanted to take a ride on the People Mover (it's the tram that goes over to Methodist). He got her all excited, and he said he'd go over and check it out. He came back and said he couldn't do it today because he was going into a surgery but we could do it tomorrow. Then, when Bailey was down in the gift shop, he comes in and says he's changed his mind about it because it's too rough a ride and not a flat ride. I asked him who was gonna tell her, and he said, "Well, I told her we couldn't do it until tomorrow, so I bought myself a day." He smiled, and literally ran out of the room. What a baby! So I told Bailey when she got back that he changed his mind, but she's going to pretend that I didn't tell her and really play it up tomorrow and be really excited about the ride on the tram . . . just so he has to tell her. Haha!! This will be fun.

Brian from the documentary team called Bailey today and told her that Patrick Dempsey called again to ask about her. He also said that he would bring him over Memorial Day weekend to meet her. She's all excited . . . and so are all the nurses.

We got to meet the race car drivers who received Bailey's and Marissa's birdhouses - Marissa's went to Jeff Bucknum and Bailey's went to Mishael Abbott. That was fun. There were about 9 drivers that showed up tonight in the atrium to hand out autographs, hats, posters etc., to the kids. They were, of course, all very nice. It was a good time.

Marissa went home tonight after spending two nights with us. She cried and told us she'd miss us, but I think we're both doing a little better at the good-byes. It's still hard, but hopefully we'll be home soon.

I hear it's going to be near 90 tomorrow. There are some advantages to being stuck inside!

Talk to you soon.
Love, Angie