Thursday (9/21), my mom watched Hannah so I could see Kyle again. I wasn't able to hold him again because I ran out of time but I was thrilled to see that for the first time ever, Kyle was wearing clothes!!! The little preemie size onesie is still a little large for him but he looked adorable in it.
Friday (9/22), they began the second course of steroids for Kyle. I didn't visit him that day because I took Hannah to Chuck-E-Cheese with the mom group from church.
Sunday (9/24) afternoon , Chris and I went to All Children's to visit Kyle and we both got a chance to hold him! The nurses gave us the good news that, since Kyle was doing so well, they would be extubating him (taking the ventilator tube out) soon.
Monday (9/25), I met with a couple of other stay at home moms at the Sprayground. As with Friday, it was nice to talk to other mothers and let Hannah play with other children. That night, I had an additional training class at work. One of my fellow trainees, Raneasha, commented that we wouldn't be working the same shift after that day so we decided to go out. We ended up going to Bricktown54, a dance club on McMullen-Booth Rd that I've been wanting to go to since I first heard about it! We had a blast!
Tuesday (9/26), my mom watched Hannah so I could go see Kyle and get to hold him while I was there. Just when I was about to leave my mom's house, I got a call from All Children's Hospital that they had just extubated him that morning! The nurse practitioner said that I might not be able to hold him since he was just taken off the ventilator but that I could at least help with the hands-on like changing his diaper. When I got to the hospital, though, the nurse said that he had been doing so well off the ventilator that I could hold him after all! He now only had the tiny tube for feeding in his mouth and a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) on his nose. The CPAP looks like a little plastic elephant trunk.
Wednesday (9/27), I decided to take Hannah to the beach. She had a blast playing in the sand and waves and just when I was packing up our stuff to leave, Reginald Roundtree and the Channel 10 News crew were walking along the shore, filming!
That night I didn't have to work since they had my schedule wrong so I called up Raneasha to see if she wanted to go to Gulfport Casino's Wednesday Swing Night. We stayed until they kicked us out learning better swing dancing and a little lindy hop from a veteran swing dancer there. Heading back to the car, we heard calypso music and followed it to a tiny bar around the corner where they were doing limbo and karaoke! No, I did not sing karaoke.
Thursday (9/28), I went to see and hold Kyle again while my mom watched Hannah again. Kyle was still doing very well off the ventilator with the CPAP and when he cries, you can hear a little bit of a noise, though still barely audible.
Yesterday (9/29), I was a little lazy and just hung around the house with Hannah. My mom got a call from Nielsen saying that she was hired and would start training October 9th.
Earlier today, I went to see Kyle again and he's now getting clean air using the normal tubes that stick up the nose. He's not too fond of it - he keeps pulling it out of his nose but he's doing well on it. He was wide-eyed the whole time I held him, staring at me in awe. It was wonderful! The nurses say that now he likes being held and responds well to it so he should be held as often as possible!
1 comment:
Cute guy
hold him tight
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