07.3.09
I totally have what the nurses call NICU-itis. SO tired of being there. But we are getting closer to her coming home.
It’s not just rough on me, though. This past Monday, Elijah started day care for the first time ever. While he was really excited about going that day, as we were on the way there, he asked me what I was going to do while he was there. I told him I was going to the hospital. He asked why and I said “to feed the baby.” He thought for a second then said, “well… can’t you just let the nurses do that?” He actually asked me that question twice. It was like he wanted to go to day care – again, he was really excited – but he didn’t want me going to the hospital at all. When I picked him up, surprisingly, he was ready to go.
But on Tuesday, when I picked him up from his second day of day care, he yelled from the top of the slide, “Mommy!!!! Can you, can you go back and see Kayleigh some more? I’m not done playing!” So who really knows what is going on in that kid’s head? But I do think he’s tired of it all, despite his getting to go pretty much anywhere and everywhere he wants.
However, and it’s not the getting of stuff that does it, but some people we don’t even know have been generous with us and making us feel loved. Such as…
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06.25.09
Tomorrow Kayleigh will be 40 weeks, June 26th is her due date. It also means that the date we were hoping for her to have come home by will have come and gone. But all is not lost, the end is in sight.
Ok, so, my last update I talked about her kidneys and how she has the grade 3 and a grade 5 reflux and will need surgery to fix that, sometime in her first year, the pediatrician tells me. We also found out that the kidney with the grade 5 is also at a lowered function. It might only function 5% of what it should, the specialist told me, or it could be 20%. They don’t know. He said that also in time, her left kidney (which as of now he sees as perfectly fine and says it can carry her through life by itself) should compensate by growing larger. If it doesn’t, it means that the right kidney has more function than he thinks it does, or that it is also bad. So we shall see what we shall see. Lots of people live with one kidney, I’m sure she’ll be fine. He did mention, though, something about, I think, if it gets worse, or really bad, then it will have to come out. I hope that doesn’t happen, of course, but we’ll take things as they come.
K is now 7 lbs and 3 oz. I’m not sure how tall she is, they haven’t updated me on that lately. She’s gaining weight steadily and it seems like it’s been really fast here lately but they say it’s still ok, no need for diuretics yet again.
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