Ayden update Dec 19th
Hi everyone, Well it’s been a while since we have done an Ayden update with all the hospital visits and surgery by me, so here you go. Ayden is doing well. His weight has topped 1230 grams (2.71 pounds)!! His feeding is 14 mils every hour and a half, then they give him a half an hour to digest and they start all over again. He is apparently doing really well with the milk as they just asked us to bring in about 40 or so containers…I was so happy to oblige, but this won’t even dent the amount in the freezer. LOL…it will be nice to be off the pain killers so I can start to store the milk again, right now every time I pump we have to dump the milk as it’s not good for the baby. Ayden’s oxygen is doing well too. He is down to...
Surgery is done
Well folks, This is Lindsay here. The surgery is done…thank goodness. Don’t mind if the email here rambles as I am still on some heavy duty drugs… What a crappy ride this has been. I have spent most of the last week or more in the hospital on so many drugs for the pain that I can’t even remember what has happened in the last few days. Mark was talking to me about some guy that he was talking to at the hospital, but I don’t even remember that at all and I don’t even know what day it is today…. But the surgery was done yesterday evening. I was transferred to Grand river and the surgery was done at 6:00ish. I was given drugs through the Iv to fall asleep and then when I woke up I was in the recovery room. I didn’t...
Life In The Hospital Ward
So, this is the 2nd time I’m writing this as the first time javascript wasn’t enabled. So it didn’t save it. Weeeeee. But now I think I’m good. I am currently sitting next to a vending machine here on the 6th floor, of grandriver waiting for my wife to come back from surgery. Some where a small electronic toy sings out “you are my sunshine” for the hundreth time. But the squeals from the child playing with it tell me there is no end in sight. Hopefully the gentle thrumming from the refridgeration unit in the pepsi machine next to me will lull me into some sort of coma. She went in about 30 minuets ago. So we’ll see how it goes. In any event typing on this tiny key pad of my 8830 is cramping my hand. Will report more in a...
Tuesday – Midday Update
Howdy Folks, Mark here again… just here at Oma’s now as it’s to far to drive back home to Baden, while Lindsay sleeps at St.Mary’s I was just sitting there while she slept, so when she got up to pump she sent me here. Basically we’re waiting for the hospital to call and tell her that she can get transferred to Grandriver. We thought the procedure would be done at St Mary’s but I guess they don’t really know, at the end of the day. So many variables – Dr Sharkey came in to see Lindsay this morning and told her that they’re gonna try to move her to Grandriver, but if a bed is not available then he’d try and slip her in at the end of the day today. As he’s operating at St. Mary’s today. He did...
Momma's Going Under The Knife
So as the title says… Lindsay had another attack 2 hours after she was home from the hospital Sunday and then needed percocet to relive the pain… the dr said he’d be able to do the surgery in the new year, we later found out Feb 17th was the date, But today MONDAY she had another attack.. and back to the hospital she went. There she learned that her liver enzymes were at elevated levels in her blood work which means that the gall bladder was indeed messing with things. So since she’d been in already and the severe attacks were happening more frequently they are gonna give her an emergency procedure, and tomorrow she’ll be moved to GrandRiver where they’ll take out the whole thing. sigh… well on the up side, Ayden had...