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Category Archive for 'Hospital Fun'

The Many Faces of Simon

Just found these pictures from Simon’s last day in the hospital. He’s a week-and-a-half older now and much less yellow, but I thought they were pretty funny and I wanted to post them. Looks a little like Winston Churchill in the rightmost one, doesn’t he? We shall fight on the beaches…we shall nevah surrendah!

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I’ve learned three things about hospitals over the past few days: Hurry Up and Wait! Hospitals are some of the slowest places on earth. We arrived yesterday at about 11:30 after a phone conversation with the NICU that suggested Simon was ready to go. Four hours later we were still waiting. Information does not flow […]

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Simon’s Coming Home!

We just got back from the hospital, and the neonatologist told us that she has filled out the discharge paperwork for tomorrow afternoon. Simon is still remarkably jaundiced (he was practically green last night), but he spent all of today under the UV light and his numbers are going down. Everyone’s thrilled…except for Simon — […]

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All Clear!

Jessica and I were discharged from the hospital earlier this evening. It wasn’t easy leaving Simon behind, but we weren’t really too worried about him and we knew he was in good hands in the NICU. After a trip to the 24-hour pharmacy to fill a Percocet prescription and a quick bite to eat, we […]

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Nap Time

I just sang Simon to sleep with a croaky version of “I’m So Tired”. Seemed appropriate for both of us.

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El Crasho Grande

We both got about two hours sleep last night, so we’re trying to crash as much as we can before they throw us out later tonight.

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Simon’s Condition Downgraded

Simon was taken off of the oxygen this afternoon, and has been moved to a less critical ICU ward. He looks great without all the stuff in his face and has even been breastfeeding (somewhat). We don’t want to get our hopes up, but we’d like to think that there is now much less reason […]

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Simon Update, Day 2

Simon is doing very well today, but he is still up in the NICU. The doctor has said that it is definitely amniotic fluid in the lungs.

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Night 1 Update

Simon spent a rotten night in the Neonatal ICU last night. I went up to spend some quality time with him about 3:30AM, and while I was rubbing his back the poor little guy managed to pull half the tubes out of his nose and set off every alarm in the place. Not how we […]

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Day 1 Update

Wow! What a day. Things got moving fast this morning (see below) and stayed that way until Simon popped out into the world at 1:48 this afternoon. I’ll save blogging about the delivery itself for Jessica when she gets home, except to say it was absolutely amazing. — About two hours after Simon was born, […]

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