Time for a change

One of the crummiest things about our rehab unit is that the rooms are double occupancy and the census is pretty high right now.  We knew this going in, and when we were paired with a 4-year-old girl who had the rhizotomy surgery the same day as Alex, we had high hopes of the girls becoming friends.  But not only has the family been fairly anti-social, but instead of taking shifts, both her parents leave when it is time to have a meal, etc. even though Sophie cries the entire time they are gone.  Then they both snuck out at night while Sophie was sleeping for several hours and of course she woke up and started crying.  Luckily Alex was so exhausted she slept through it (and the nurses quickly took her out of the room upon Jim's request), but we did request a room change because of it. 

Now we are rooming with another 6-year-old girl who had the rhizotomy surgery 2 weeks before Alex.  Her family is super nice and Alina is a sweet girl.  Neither girl is what I'd call socially outgoing, but Alina says "hi" and I think Alex is getting to where she'll say "hi" back.  Lately she has been in a generally grumpy mood.  I think she is both physically tired as well as being annoyed to have her day so incredibly structured without a lot of time for her to do her own thing (at least not nearly as much as she is used to, especially having been homeschooled for the past year).  Alina will be here through next Friday, so we are happy to have the stability of a good room-mate situation for at least the next week.  Then hopefully we'll manage to get some days on our own before we get another room-mate.

Alex and her new roomie (in yellow shirt) at the hospital's dog show--they usually have some kind of activity in the evenings for the kids who stay at the hospital.