Re: First Days
Compustat Staff (nhorizon@iafrica.com)
Sat, 9 Mar 1996 07:47:16 +0200 (GMT+0200)
Yes, it was such a shock when Devin ended up back in hospital, I had
managed to keep my "spirits" up all through the first visit but when he
went in the second time I cracked. He was home for a week and we noticed
he was pale and would not drink, so we phoned the Paed at 11.00pm at
night and my husband took Devin through to hospital while I stayed with
my older child. My Paed phoned and said that Devin was not as bad as I
made out on the phone (neurotic mom syndrome type of thing) but he would
keep him in for observation. They admitted him to the normal paed ward
not N.I.C.U. In the morning the sister was holding him and telling him
how big he had got, when he suddenly stopped breathing and his heart
stopped. It was quite a battle to get him going again and then he was
readmitted to N.I.C.U. for another couple of weeks and again his survival
was touch and go. If he had been at home and I had not acted like "the
neurotic mom" there is no way we could have resussed him.
Since then June 1994, he has been in and out of hospital approximately 18
times. I am as at home at the hospital as I am here now as my older one
also a preemie is also in and out of hospital - both suffer from very
weak chests and have to regularly be admitted and put onto oxygen,
nebuliser's etc.
Ina
On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Michael Chambers wrote:
> All these messages have me thinking.
> A question that comes to mind.
> How many others brought there bundles of joy home only to return to the
> hospital a few days later, I seem to hear a lot of this. Andrew was sent
> home after 2 months in the NICU, we made it 4 day before we were back in
> the NICU for what turned out to be another 2 months.
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