It had to be one of the most beautiful days, March 12; the sun was shining the birds chirping, everything running smoothly. The Bolton family was still in the hospital but it was no longer a sad thing. Their lives seemed to change for the good over night; their family gained two members and praised the lord for getting another back.
All of the Montez/Bolton's minus Camryn sat in the waiting room, patiently waiting for the news about Camryn's MRI scan that her doctor ordered after she woke up. Once Gabriella saw her daughter's eyes open she only had a few seconds to look in her blue eyes before two nurses came running in to check her vitals. As she sits there she hopes that her tests won't take much longer, she wanted to see her baby and talk to her and see her smile and look into those deep blue eyes again.
"Mr. and Mrs. Bolton," they heard, "All of Camryn's scans came back fine, and everything in her brain is working just like they are supposed to. As well as her hearing test, her transplant is working correctly; it's given her a slight headache but that is to be expected and I've given her some medicine so that should help. We took some blood test just to make sure she doesn't have any infections or any iron deficiency," They all listened carefully to the doctor's words, "She most likely wont feel hungry or even throw up her food for the next few weeks that's because of the IV food we've been giving her, her body is used to ingesting all of her nutrients at one time and at first her body will reject food that doesn't have all of her nutrients in one so I'll give you about three weeks of cans of the stuff she's been eating just so she is in taking some sort of food. And then I want her to have physical therapy every week but I want you guys to help her do a few exercises, which her therapist will show her, everyday for about an hour."
Troy and Gabriella nodded their head as they listened to the doctors instructions, "So when can she come home," Gabriella asked.
"If all of her blood and urine test come out good then I would let her leave tomorrow night," he answered.
They all looked at each other and smiled, "Thank you so much for taking care of her," Troy said.
"No problem," the doctor responded with a smile, "She's back in her room and you guys can see her but only a few at a time."
The doctor walked out of the waiting room. Gabriella and Lissy turned to look at Troy with pleading eyes, he sighed then said, "Okay, but I call next round," he said.
Both girls squealed, "Thanks babe," Gabriella said.
"Yeah thanks daddy," Lissy said picking up the twins who were in their car seats then her and her mother hastily walked to Camryn's room.
The two Bolton girls slowly opened the door and saw Camryn lying on her bed with a big smile on her face as she watched the TV that was playing an episode of Dane Cook's comedy specials. Gabriella couldn't help but wipe away a tear that escaped her eyes when she saw her baby girl smile. Camryn heard the door click closed and turned around and like Gabriella began to tear up; she tried to say something but cleared her throat before shakily playfully saying, "Take a picture it'll last longer."
Lissy carefully puts down the babies car seats and walks over to Camryn and pulls her in for a huge hug, and Gabriella follows.
"Okay guys I can't breathe," Camryn chocked as her mother and big sister hugged onto her tighter. They slowly retreated, "Hey where are those babies," Camryn asked wiping away a couple more tears.
Lissy bent down and began unbuckling Sawyer from her car seat then handed her to Gabriella before unbuckling Emerson as well.
"Oh my gosh they are so cute," Camryn smiled as she looked at their sleeping faces, "Well I guess now we know they get their looks from this side of the family," Camryn joked.
The Bolton women, well technically four girls and one boy, sat there next to Camryn filling her in on the life she had been missing for four months. Having fun, just like old times.
Everyone of the Montez/Bolton family who went to talk to Camryn walked out of the room with happy tears streaming from their eyes, they didn't know how amazing it was going to be to hear her voice again and to see her blue eyes staring back at you. Even doctors and nurse who had become family friends went to talk to Camryn and wipe away their tears of joy.
Later that day, around 7, Gabriella and Troy stood in the corner of the physical therapy room which looked like a gym with more bars. Gabriella leaned against her husband's chest as they watched Camryn with her therapist, Lori, stretching out her legs. They watched carefully per the doctors instructions, so they could do the same thing with Camryn at home. No one had gone home, everyone else was in the cafeteria eating dinner and then all were heading back to the day care to help out.
"You know it's going to be crazy when we go home tomorrow," Troy said after placing a kiss to his wife's head.
"Yeah but everyone will be home," Gabriella pointed out, "It may be chaotic but chaos is our specialty."
"True, you got a point there Grandma," Troy teased.
Gabriella turned around to face him, still nestled in his arms, "Ha, Ha very funny….Is that a grey hair I see Grandpa," she said running her fingers through his hair.
"Touché," he said admitting defeat. Gabriella placed a kiss on his lips then turned back around to watch their daughter.
The rest of the night passed by quickly and once again no one went home.
Morning came and everyone was excited, only a short while before everyone was going home including Camryn. Everyone just sat and waited for the results of Camryn's test from the day before and the follow up ones that she took that morning. Along with Camryn having 2 ½ hour therapy session the Montez/Bolton family took a class of their own (excluding Jacob, Kenadie, Konner and the babies) where they learned how to help Camryn with her stretches as well as changing her IV that she would have for a few days (antibiotics). After the class Troy quickly ran home to grab clothes for Camryn, so she wouldn't have to go home butt naked.
The last hour seemed to last forever; everyone was continuously looking at the clock to see how long they had left. While Gabriella and a nurse helped Camryn get dressed Troy and his mom were standing right outside the door. Troy was so anxious that he was pacing back in forth.
"Troy you really need to calm down or you're going to wear down the floor," Mrs. Bolton said amused by the look on her son's face.
He ran his fingers through his hair before saying, "I don't know why I'm like this."
Mrs. Bolton lightly rubbed her hand on his back, "This is what you do when all of your babies come home."
"Yeah but my baby isn't a baby she's 14."
"So she's still your baby and always will be and you will always be nervous or anxious whenever something big is happening in her life. I remembered when she was born and you would pace outside of the NICU as well as outside Gabby's room," she said.
"I don't pace all the time."
"And what about that one time you were pacing in the living room waiting for her school dance to get over and you tripped over Kenadie's bouncy seat and broke your arm," She said with a small giggle.
"Okay I'll give you that one," he said with a smile, "Thanks mom."
"For what," she asked.
"For being here for us, helping with the kids…for always being here for me and Gabriella even though we made all of our lives…complicated," he answered.
She smiled, "No problem, it's my job…You would do the same thing for anyone of your children."
He pulled his mom into a big hug.
The door to Camryn's room opened and Gabriella walked out and said, "Ten minutes in counting."
The last ten minutes were filled with signing discharge papers and riding elevators to the main floor. Troy and Gabriella gave Camryn's doctor a few more thank yous before walking out to the car.
When Troy pushed Camryn up to the car, Camryn was surprised to see a white shuttle van, "I thought you said you would never drive one of these no matter how big our family got," Camryn said while Troy picked her up and placed her into the van.
"You remember everything," he laughed.
"Embrace it, fear it," she joked.
They all got situated in the van and began to drive home. Troy laced his fingers with Gabriella's as he looked in his rear view mirror and couldn't help but smile as he saw all of his children smiling.
SO WHAT DID YOU THINK? I WAS THINKING OF JUMPING LIKE 4 YEARS, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO HAPPEN?
HANNAH