Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Bill
Katie and I received the bill for 2 weeks of Addison in the hospital and 3 days of Katie in the hospital. The total came to somewhere between $45,000 and $50,000. Yikes. Fortunately, we only have to pay a small fraction of that. Good thankness for good insurance.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
New House Decoration
Addie has finally made it home from the hospital. We brought her home on Monday, but I haven't gotten around to posting about it until now.
She has gotten quite good at eating from the bottle. We know she is hungry when she starts opening and closing her mouth like a fish. The only problem is she must think she is at Chuck-A-Rama because she tends to projectile vomit half of it back up. Mommy is good at cleaning it up though :).
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Suspicious
Addie seems to be improving quickly now. They've moved her out of her plastic cocoon and into an open air crib. They still keep the room temperature at a balmy 78 degrees, but it's a step in the right direction towards coming home. She is also feeding by mouth a couple of times a day, so things are certainly looking up. Hopefully she'll be home soon.
I rode my bike to work today. In order to have something other than sweaty bike clothes to wear there, I had to ride with a backpack filled with my work clothes and then change into them when I got there. After work was over, I changed back out of my work clothes into my bike clothes and rode to the hospital to meet Katie. By the time I got there it was 6:10 and the NICU closes for an hour starting at 6:30, so I was in a little bit of a rush to get in there. Originally we planned to have Katie come out and open the car up, but there wasn't time for that anymore. I found our car, put on some jeans from the backpack over my bike shorts, hid the backpack underneath the car, then ran inside. I cooed Addie for 10 minutes, then Katie and I headed back out to the car. As we were walking past the front desk there were three security guards chatting with the receptionist. I noticed they were eyeing me a little bit as I walked past, but I didn't think much of it. When I got back to the car and looked for the backpack... it was gone. Who would want an 8 year old backpack full of dirty clothes? Then I remembered the security guards. I started walking back towards the front desk, and sure enough, here came two of them in my direction. Turned out someone had reported a "suspicious backpack" underneath our car. The guards were nice enough to retrieve it and take it into the hospital to keep it warm. I'm just glad the guards didn't freak out and call in a bomb squad. I can just see myself looking like a moron as a I try to explain it to the TV news reporter.
I rode my bike to work today. In order to have something other than sweaty bike clothes to wear there, I had to ride with a backpack filled with my work clothes and then change into them when I got there. After work was over, I changed back out of my work clothes into my bike clothes and rode to the hospital to meet Katie. By the time I got there it was 6:10 and the NICU closes for an hour starting at 6:30, so I was in a little bit of a rush to get in there. Originally we planned to have Katie come out and open the car up, but there wasn't time for that anymore. I found our car, put on some jeans from the backpack over my bike shorts, hid the backpack underneath the car, then ran inside. I cooed Addie for 10 minutes, then Katie and I headed back out to the car. As we were walking past the front desk there were three security guards chatting with the receptionist. I noticed they were eyeing me a little bit as I walked past, but I didn't think much of it. When I got back to the car and looked for the backpack... it was gone. Who would want an 8 year old backpack full of dirty clothes? Then I remembered the security guards. I started walking back towards the front desk, and sure enough, here came two of them in my direction. Turned out someone had reported a "suspicious backpack" underneath our car. The guards were nice enough to retrieve it and take it into the hospital to keep it warm. I'm just glad the guards didn't freak out and call in a bomb squad. I can just see myself looking like a moron as a I try to explain it to the TV news reporter.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
More on the baby
My mom chastised me for not updating the blog. Here is an update.
Addie has progressed pretty steadily, and there still haven't been any major problems. Her bilirubin count was slowly climbing which is an indication of jaundice, but I guess it's pretty common for premies. The solution was to put her under a McDonalds french fry lamp overnight and that seemed to fix it. It also gave her skin a nice golden-brown color.
She also has progressed to clothing as you can see from the picture. A nice purple jumper is her first outfit. Even as a premie outfit, it still looks pretty big. We also put a hat on her. If we bought her some floppy shoes, she could run off with the circus. Sometime I would like to post a picture of the piles of clothing she has got. She is real girl, for sure.Katie is also doing much better. She had a rough week, but by Saturday she was feeling pretty good. Her blood pressure is still sky-high, but she has some medication that seems to help. She's getting to the point where it doesn't even look like she was ever pregnant. Still skinny.
As for me, I have a bike race in St. George I would like to go to this weekend. I haven't had a lot of time for riding. The weather in Salt Lake has been colder and wetter this year than I can ever remember since I've been in Utah. All of the riding I have done has been sub-two hours, so if I did go to the race, I couldn't expect much. It would be nice to get down there for some warm weather riding though.
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