Thanks, Laura. Next week, our big outting will be to Santa Anita Race Track early in the morning to watch them exercise the horses (which is FREE!). K is taking Wednesday off (and I'm going to work for her instead) and she's going to take him to Huntington for his weekly garden visit.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 03, 2007 4:02:57 pm PDT #2370 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Laura - Aug 03, 2007 4:07:19 pm PDT #2371 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I love that Noah has outings now. Grace remains in my prayers that she will get to go on fun outings soon.
Kat - Aug 03, 2007 4:10:37 pm PDT #2372 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Huntington hospital's NICU felt much safer-- you had to call and talk to the receptionist and the receptionists rocked! They also sat right next to the sink and regulated handwashing.
It was more that everyone knew who you were because they took photos of all parents and had it as part of the chart. There was never any of the "who are you?" At Children's it is much looser. you can basically just buzz and they let everyone in. It doesn't make me uneasy for my kid (again, she's too hard to steal), but if I had a healthier baby it might.
Then again if I had a healthier baby, she wouldn't be there.
Bobbi - Aug 03, 2007 4:14:02 pm PDT #2373 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.
I'm out on the east coast, and I know NICU practices vary regionally. Different isn't necessarily better or worse. We have to do what's right for our particular area. I happen to work in a well to do suburb where faxes about suspicious women in scrubs attempting to get into baby areas in local hospitals aren't all that uncommon.
sumi - Aug 03, 2007 4:14:56 pm PDT #2374 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Masterpiece Theatre is running adaptations of all the Austen works in 2008.
Kat - Aug 03, 2007 4:17:52 pm PDT #2375 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm fascinated by NICU practices. I also imagine my experience with Noah being there for 105 days and Grace being there for 80+ days then transferred to a more intensive unit is different. I mean, if my kid was there for 8 days or less, I might feel differently or they may have done it differently.
But even in Huntington's Peds, they took photos of the baby and us then lowjacked him. It was fascinating.
sarameg - Aug 03, 2007 4:24:49 pm PDT #2376 of 10001
I really don't need FOUR pairs of shoes (five if you count flipflops) for a week in which I will mostly be in the house and yard with kids. But do I still have 4 pairs lined up. Sigh. Two. Two would suffice.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2007 4:28:41 pm PDT #2377 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't take the pairs on the end. Solved!
Bobbi - Aug 03, 2007 4:29:04 pm PDT #2378 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.
Kat, I've been a NICU nurse for over 30 years. I've seen quite a bit of change in NICU practices! I'm so sorry you and Noah and Grace have had such an extended ordeal. I never had kids and I think that working in the NICU since I was 21 was a major contributing factor to that decision.
Kat - Aug 03, 2007 4:56:28 pm PDT #2379 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I never had kids and I think that working in the NICU since I was 21 was a major contributing factor to that decision.
I can see that. One of the nurses N&G had was 8 months pregnant. She was delivering at the hospital. Her fervent wish was that no one from the team would have to attend her delivery. One of the night neonatalogists did though.
She named her son Noah too.