[Just called the NICU before going to bed and it turns our Bjarki had his preemie MRI exam at 10pm. The nurse figured they’d know tomorrow if the pictures came out ok (i.e. not fuzzy due to movement) and they might even have some results. Who knows! We’re still stuck in the NICU. Turns outRead more
[Bjarki’s still hanging out in the NICU, but I met an “ex-NICU, current IICN”-mom who told me that her son is being discharged from the IICN tomorrow so Bjarki might conceivably move down then. Turns out the whole IICN isn’t closed, just one of the two rooms. We had a pretty good day today. BjarkiRead more
[I took Anna to the hospital after daycare yesterday to visit Bjarki and fetch Hrefna. Towards the end she got to hold him a little and the first thing Bjarki did as I placed him in Anna’s lap was to stretch and stretch. Anna then proceeded to stretch and yawn and then wearily blurted out:Read more
[After a good weekend with very few “desats”, the doctors finally decided that Bjarki was stable enough to graduate from the “Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)” and move down to the “Intermediate Intensive Care Nursery (IICN)” to join the “feeders and growers”. Yay! 🙂 But… just as I was starting to get comfortable with theRead more
[Bjarki had a good day today, with almost no “desats”. I went to see him around lunchtime, but didn’t try him at the boob (for his daily drowning) since right when I was about to do so, a lab-lady came to take a blood sample and he was exhausted afterwards. Boy, did he put upRead more
[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
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