So it looks like the antibiotics are working. His little leg doesn't hurt as much! Before even if I just held him wrong, he would scream unconsolably (is that a word?)...then I could soothe him...now he doesn't scream!!! I mean if you crank his hip/leg around yeah he still hurts, but it's not just if you bump him like it was before. YAY for improvement! The plan for a PICC line isn't going so well...they aren't able to get one....so it's looking more and more like we are going to be headed for surgery. The peds surgeon though is really nice and awesome...so at least if he has to have the Broviac placed...I like the guy doing it. Daegan's crit has been steadily dropping...so to prepare...Russ went and guts-up and donated blood! And he didn't pass out! Being the good little ophtho resident...he can't handle more than two Q-tips worth of blood... Hopefully Russ' blood checks out ok for Daegan...I hated him having to get the transfusion before...and you know it's weird....because I give blood all the time...so I'm sure there are lots of other good people...non-dirty, non-crack-smoking, non-shooting-up, healthy people...who give blood...but still having to have foreign stuff injected into your body is scary. So they are planning to do the surgery once we get the clear from Russ' blood...basically they just have to make sure he doesn't have any weird antibiodies and that he is CMV negative...cause they don't know that they are going to "need" the blood, but we figure it's better to be prepared....I can hear my FIL now: "Proper planning prevents piss-poor perfomance."

Our Il Duce is living up to his nickname ethnicity and eating like an Italian! Little guy screams at meal time...I think he'd be better on a q2h schedule...or at least if he was getting more food q3h....but I'm working on it....when I feed him he eats 60cc consistently...some nurses aren't as good as me...ha ha...read a few posts up....j/k...but really I do feel like I'm getting the hang of him.

The neo and the NPs all keep saying....antibiotics for a llllooooonnnngggg time....but the ID keeps saying 4 weeks minimun...which would only be 3 more weeks from now. I hope that they let him come home with us even if he still needs IV meds...I can do it...Russ can do it....I can take him to a freaking clinic twice a day if they want...but I want him home!!!

He really looks good...and he's been more alert and awake when he's "up" than before. He's 6 weeks old already! He is starting to get the newborn acne though...yuck...

Me: I got a plugged duct again...I hate pumping. I hate it. And so I let it go too long....ugh...they plug up, hurt, I ache, get a fever, have to pump a lot..and it goes away. But it sucks! I finally got new shields...I think they are amazing!! They have really made a difference in the past two days!

I took the test for my LA state vet license yesterday. I had to drive 4 freakin hours for a 25 question multiple choice test...and drive 4 hours back. Why it's only offered in one part of the state is beyond me. California does it too....it's stupid. Really there isn't such an over abundance of veterinarians that you need to make it hard to get a license....seriously..... at least I passed. I don't have to do it again. Now I just have to send in my national board scores and set up and do the 8 week preceptor/shadow period and I can work. Goodness we need the money.

About working...I've been thinking about the whole daycare thing...I have to be concerned about RSV in Daegan for a while....I'd hate to stick him in daycare in the middle of RSV season his first year of life.....so I was thinking about waiting...that means though that I won;t start shadowing until April/May and then working/getting paid until June...that;s a long time. We'll need the money sooner. So I've been thinking about ahving someone come to the house to watch Daegan. That way I can still limit the contact he has with germs... How to find someone??? My friend here said she'd watch him tues/thurs...that'd be good, but her son goes to daycare...so then I think that I'm not really limiting...her son would be the perfect little fomite! I think I'll ask around the NICU nurses...they might know someone...

Russ is on Ophtho this month!! YAY!! He's happier...and he's been off by 4 everyday...Praise to the powers-that-be that he chose this specialty!!! I am blessed!