[A blood test this morning revealed that Bjarki was anemic again so he got a blood transfusion around noon. The docs are hoping this will lower his heart rate a bit, and hopefully calm his breathing too. Apparently panting is a side effect of low blood counts. Today we also got the docs to changeRead more
[Bjarki’s still alive and growing. The docs were worried about his heart today, but the cardio-docs weren’t too concerned, so they’ll just keep watching him. The nurse today was one of those “by the book and as the docs say only” nurses, and we didn’t get along all that well. I’m getting tired of theRead more
[The cardio-docs decided to stop Bjarki’s heart medication today (for the crazy fast heartbeats) to see if he’s “grown out of it”. There’s been no sign of tachycardia (the crazy fast heartbeat) for about 8 weeks now, and they figured stopping it now, when he’s hooked up to a continuous monitor, would be a betterRead more
[Oh god, what a start of a week… I woke up way too early (it seemed) this morning, stiff in my neck and head after a night of bad sleep and discovered there is no hot water in our shower. Eeeeek! But it only got worse from there. After getting my daughter up, fed andRead more
[A warm three day labor day weekend is over. We’ve been experiencing a heatwave and Anna and I visited Darya today, Anna’s classmate, (after a visit to the hospital and a nap). Darya’s parents had invited us over to take a dip in the pool in their housing complex, which we gratefully accepted and thoroughlyRead more
[I just checked the blog and noticed we haven’t updated in a few days. Hmmm… What happened, I find myself asking myself? 🙂 I guess we noticed how boring our life is after Steinunn and Einar left 🙂 on Thursday night and we feel like there are no news. Anna Solrun told me the followingRead more
[In about an hour, Bjarki Freyr will be 9 weeks old, or 35 weeks or minus 5 weeks. This morning I called into the hospital and of course the nurse admitted to trying to wean Bjarki down from 96% oxygen saturation, which is where he hangs out when he’s happy. For some reason that annoyedRead more
[Bjarki is two months old today. It’s kinda freaky how quickly time has passed, but at the same time, time hasn’t passed quickly enough, i.e. he’s still in the hospital and everybody keeps saying “He’ll grow out of (insert issue)”. Today though was the first day he was dressed in a shirt that we’d broughtRead more
[I’ve spent the past four days (from noon until dinner) at the hospital with Bjarki, with a coffee break around 3pm. He’s now old enough to qualify for “fresh” breastmilk (previously it had to be frozen for at least 24 hours), so I’ve been arriving at the hospital and pumping. Then, right as he’s gettingRead more
[The last three days with our houseguests have been busy: On Thursday I took Einar, Steinunn and Anna to San Francisco to look at the Golden Gate, drive them down steep hills with Anna in the back seat laughing all the way down, visit Pier 39 (with Anna fascinated over the sealions) and then toRead more
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