Today is supposed to be a good day, a lucky day with 8/8/08 but it turned out to be an unlucky day for us. Today was my release day from the hospital. Also the first day of the Olympics if you are paying attention to it. We slept very well last night. I pumped at 4am and saw Luke who seemed to be doing well. At 7am I got all checked out by my nurse and pumped again. We tried to sleep more but we received several phone calls from family and friends requesting a Luke update. We packed up and then my sister and mother came over for the last time because they are heading back home today. Actually Mother never came to see me and say good bye. She hung out in the lobby and was very rude to Karl as he helped Sandra get things into the car. Mother really was becoming distraction and needed to get out of here. I wish my sister could stay but she’s been wonderful staying the entire week. We also have been lucky to have our friend, Samanta (Luke’s godmother), be able to pick and drop off Carlita at daycare every morning and evening. Once Sandra and mother left, we got released from our room and headed home to unpack to repack. See, the NICU has family rooms that you can stay in overnight (you have to sign up for it every morning) and I signed up for tonight. We got home after going to our pharmacy to drop off my pain prescription. While unpacking, we realized that our Ipod Touch and wireless mouse was missing. I remembered having them on the window still but I know we didn’t pack them up. I called the hospital and they only found a cell phone charger. This really stressed me out. We rushed packing and went to the pharmacy to get my medicine and found out that they couldn’t fill it out because they couldn’t read the doctor’s name. If it’s not one thing, it’s another thing. We drove back to the hospital and went to my room and found nothing. Our Ipod touch and mouse was gone but not the charger. I don’t think the nurses took it because they didn’t even know what an Itouch was but obviously after we left anyone could have came in and took it. I was so upset!!! Nothing was going right.
After that drama, I went to the hospital pharmacy and realized I didn’t have my ID (it was at home so poor Karl had to drive home to get my ID). I was getting more and more upset. Then after he got back, we opened some mail and found a “photo” speeding ticket. What a day! Lastly, Samanta was 6 minute late getting Carlita due to a train crossing and daycare called us and are charging us a late pick up fee. Damn it!!!! What else, what else can go wrong? Karl was very sweet and got me flowers and a family figurine from Willow Tree. He’s so sweet! I’m very lucky to have him and his even-tempered personality to balance out my emotional state right now.
We did have good news today with Luke. His chest X-rays were improving. They showed us all his x-rays from birth day one. The X-rays showed that his lungs were closed off (you can tell by the white, cloudy coloring). The most recent X-ray showed his lungs were starting to open (there were more dark spots) which was very good news. Dr. Stuartz was very pleased and decided to stop his pavulon (this was the medicine to make him paralyzed so he can be relaxed). It was also making him too paralyzed, which is not good because you need to exercise your muscles. He was also off the phototherapy for jaundice so at least we had a good day with Luke.
So after a day like this, I moved into the NICU family room and hung out at Luke’s bedside until 11pm. After pumping, I headed to bed and watched a bit of the Opening Ceremonies. I needed mindless activity after this unlucky day. Hopefully tomorrow we are more lucky.
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