Some of Mady's quotable quotes

"Mom might like to have that cot"

After Chris spent the first three nights at the hospital sleeping on an uncomfortable reclining chair next to Mady's bed, I spent a night in relative luxury when the nurses found a cot for me. Mady strongly suggested that we keep possession of the cot for mom too.

"Are you just here for your own entertainment?"

Said to me with eyes closed and a sly grin when I changed her TV from a DVD movie to the Red Sox - Yankees game on Friday night after I thought she fell asleep. She did let me watch the game.

"I need to go to the bathroom"

Madeline never had to pee very often before, but to keep her kidneys flushed, they are intravenously pumping 150 to 200 ml of liquids per hour into her. This is double the liquids that a normal human her size might take in orally, so she goes to the bathroom more than usual. Still, the nurses call her The Camel because they've never seen someone take in so much liquid and yet go so long between toilet breaks. Going to the bathroom is an effort though, as it involves disconnecting the telemetry leads from her chest, the Oxygen monitor from her toe, and switching her IV pumps to battery power to make them wheelable to the toilet. Whew!

"White in White, Green in nothing, Black in Red"

After the bathroom break, her three telemetry lead wires need to be re-connected into sockets that don't match their colors. She saw my confusion and recited the quote above... which has become a mantra after each bathroom break. Why don't the colors match? I have no idea.