Transition
Jan. 25th, 2012 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayToday we start the routine that will hopefully be little more than the next step in getting Sarah's twin girls home. As I said in a previous post, Sarah was released from the hospital yesterday but had to leave her little ones in the NIC-U. I haven't heard how that has affected her, but I know it can't have been easy.
Because there's a period of hours during which nursing staff gets report and does rounds, followed by doctors' rounds, the unit is closed to ALL visitors including parents. So I'll be driving her up to the hill, as it's known around here, around 10:30 AM and she'll spend the rest of the day and part of the evening. And she'll be joined by the kids' dad after he gets done with work.
After visiting hours, they'll both come home and prepare themselves for another day of the same. I suppose in some ways it's actually a good transition for them. Sarah will have at least a few days to rest and recover from the surgery before she has to assume the full burden and responsibility of their care at home. So hopefully that part of it will be beneficial to her.
And even though I know that she won't necessarily feel that way about it, I hope that at another level she understands and adjusts and uses it for whatever good may be made of it...
LPK
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1.25.2012 (a)
Because there's a period of hours during which nursing staff gets report and does rounds, followed by doctors' rounds, the unit is closed to ALL visitors including parents. So I'll be driving her up to the hill, as it's known around here, around 10:30 AM and she'll spend the rest of the day and part of the evening. And she'll be joined by the kids' dad after he gets done with work.
After visiting hours, they'll both come home and prepare themselves for another day of the same. I suppose in some ways it's actually a good transition for them. Sarah will have at least a few days to rest and recover from the surgery before she has to assume the full burden and responsibility of their care at home. So hopefully that part of it will be beneficial to her.
And even though I know that she won't necessarily feel that way about it, I hope that at another level she understands and adjusts and uses it for whatever good may be made of it...
LPK
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1.25.2012 (a)
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Date: 2012-01-25 03:36 pm (UTC)I'm sorry not to have seen the posts earlier. Good luck to those babies and their parents.
And grandparents.
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Date: 2012-01-25 06:23 pm (UTC)I haven't seen them myself, as yet, but visited a few minutes with Sarah while driving her up to the hospital for the day. Thankfully, she's in good spirits and just really happy about her little daughters.
As for the grandparents, we feel like we've finally exhaled, after about the last three months. The girls still have some benchmarks to meet, on their way out of the NIC-U, but everything seems headed in the right direction...