Day 2 - A Hard Day
Feb. 8th, 2010 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickIt's been a long day and I haven't gotten alot of sleep.
I considered writing a long post about the day, but it doesn't feel half as important as yesterday's post. Yesterday was a DAY. Today is just dealing with the effects of yesterday.. mostly.
The Return of Snowmageddon is expected tomorrow night and Wednesday. This really threw me for a loop because I couldn't figure out how to get my parking spot dug out before I need to take K home, and also have the cats taken care of if I were to be where I WANT to be, the hospital.
Thanks to a friend, I have a plan. If I'm lucky, one of K's family's friends may be even more help as he's offering plow assistance.
One way or the other, I'm allowing myself to get snowed in at the hospital and hoping the cats can take care of themselves for a day.
I feel guilty about this, but I wouldn't be happy trying to stay at home.
The hardest part of the day was hearing that we'd likely be leaving the hospital without our baby. All signs seem to suggest that despite a rough start, Robert's doing A-OK. He's alert, he's got energy, he's doing everything a child his age should be doing, as far as I can tell, but the doctors are cautious due to his small size and want to take the time to introduce milk to him slowly so he doesn't end up getting bodily damage (I guess, at his weight, a real concern is that if they let him drink too much too quickly he might perforate his ulcer.)
I've fallen in love with my little boy, faster and farther than I honestly expected coming into this. He's so tiny and helpless and it kills me (and Kristen) to have to leave him at the hospital while we go home. I know he's getting good care and I CAN'T fault the doctors their caution, but it still sucks.
Add to that being way overtired and the logistics of sorta managing the household while wanting to be in the hospital in the middle of a snowstorm, and it's just been a Long Day.
But... wow, as I said to Kristen.. somehow, in the past 36 hours, I FEEL like I've gained a family. I mean, I always had a family, of course, but... I look at my wife and my little boy and THAT, That is my family.
I'd love to post more, but I think it's time to try to sleep.
Catch everyone on the flip side. I'll probably post from the hospital tomorrow whilst I let myself get snowed in. Thank god for friends willing to help out the best they can.
I considered writing a long post about the day, but it doesn't feel half as important as yesterday's post. Yesterday was a DAY. Today is just dealing with the effects of yesterday.. mostly.
The Return of Snowmageddon is expected tomorrow night and Wednesday. This really threw me for a loop because I couldn't figure out how to get my parking spot dug out before I need to take K home, and also have the cats taken care of if I were to be where I WANT to be, the hospital.
Thanks to a friend, I have a plan. If I'm lucky, one of K's family's friends may be even more help as he's offering plow assistance.
One way or the other, I'm allowing myself to get snowed in at the hospital and hoping the cats can take care of themselves for a day.
I feel guilty about this, but I wouldn't be happy trying to stay at home.
The hardest part of the day was hearing that we'd likely be leaving the hospital without our baby. All signs seem to suggest that despite a rough start, Robert's doing A-OK. He's alert, he's got energy, he's doing everything a child his age should be doing, as far as I can tell, but the doctors are cautious due to his small size and want to take the time to introduce milk to him slowly so he doesn't end up getting bodily damage (I guess, at his weight, a real concern is that if they let him drink too much too quickly he might perforate his ulcer.)
I've fallen in love with my little boy, faster and farther than I honestly expected coming into this. He's so tiny and helpless and it kills me (and Kristen) to have to leave him at the hospital while we go home. I know he's getting good care and I CAN'T fault the doctors their caution, but it still sucks.
Add to that being way overtired and the logistics of sorta managing the household while wanting to be in the hospital in the middle of a snowstorm, and it's just been a Long Day.
But... wow, as I said to Kristen.. somehow, in the past 36 hours, I FEEL like I've gained a family. I mean, I always had a family, of course, but... I look at my wife and my little boy and THAT, That is my family.
I'd love to post more, but I think it's time to try to sleep.
Catch everyone on the flip side. I'll probably post from the hospital tomorrow whilst I let myself get snowed in. Thank god for friends willing to help out the best they can.
