Thursday, January 31, 2008

Moving Rooms

There has been a lot of room moving the past two days. One good move and one bad. I'll start with the bad first...

After we visited Sadie yesterday, I turned my cell phone back on and it said that I had a message. It was Bev (Jen's mom) and she said that she was driving Mike (Jen's dad) to the ER. Mike was burned pretty bad when he was working on his car. He was trying to fix a coolant leak when a hose came off and sprayed him with hot coolant. After his pain was stablized, he was admitted (hense moving from his bedroom to a hospital room). We visited him today before we visited Sadie and he seemed to be in pretty good spirits considering the situation. He has first and second degree burns on his abdomen, neck, lower face, arms, and hands. The doctor said that he's in the hospital until Saturday or Sunday mainly for pain management. He has some medication that he's applying to the burn sites. I don't think they are too worried about scarring.

The other move was a good one. At 3pm today, Sadie was moved from Room 1 to Room 4 in the NICU. Although there aren't technically rooms where healthier babies are taken care of, the room Sadie is in has one nurse for three babies opposed to Room 1 where the ratio is usually 1:2. She ate okay today at her 2:30 feeding. She drank half of her 40 something mL bottle and the remainder was gavaged. When I called tonight to check on her, she weighed 5 pounds 11.5 ounses. The 2 ounses more than yesterday and 5.8 ounses more than when she was born.

I finally got the photos up to date and added one more video, so you have more to look at now.

I'm exhausted. It was a busy day with work, dropping Aedan off at Madai's, going to the hospital to see Mike and Sadie, and keeping the home fire burning. Jen's already sleeping and I'm about to join her in her slumber...

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