Missing mommy and daddy

Mommy and daddy slept at home last night. When daddy woke up to go to work this morning, mommy woke up with him. She couldn't fall back asleep after daddy left, so she drove to the hospital to spend time with me before she went to work. I got to spend two whole hours with her before she left. I was so happy she came. I told her that I had a pretty good night because my nurse was Tiffany. But then Tiffany told on me.

See, Tiffany got a call from mommy last night wanting to know how I was doing at 9pm. Tiffany told mommy that I was sat-ing 93% and was only on 48% oxygen, so I was breathing really good. But at some point during the night I didn't do so good. Tiffany told mommy this morning that she had gotten worried at one point because I was apnic and she couldn't get me started breathing again for lots of minutes. Mommy and daddy have witnessed me doing this numerous times, but Tiffany has not. Tiffany went on to explain that daddy had called around 4:30am on his way to work, and when she told him about my apnic spell, he explained that apnea was a common occurrance with me. Tiffany was a little less worried then, and then when mommy got here, mommy explained the same thing. See, Tiffany is a really good nurse and I am usually on my best behavior for her, but I think I was missing mommy and daddy a little too much last night.

Mommy and daddy both worked today. Grandpa Bob came to the hospital to spend time with me until daddy got off work, and then eventually mommy came to me from work too. Then I had my family back:) Eventually we'll get used to missing each other.

I wasn't very good today either, but I didn't have any real apnic spells. I was squirmy and up and down like usual. I got my tubes and hoses changed and then when I got my x-ray, one of my hoses got pinched in the door to my bed and messed up the pressure on my vent. That kind of messed up my blood gas, so once my nurse Jen (that's right, Africa-bound Jen) figured out that my hose was pinched, she fixed it and then did another blood gas. The 4pm blood gas was a little better than the 2pm blood gas so everyone was more happy.

I'm doing okay, so don't worry too much about me. Mommy was able to make it through a whole day of work, and she now understands completely how daddy feels when he has to leave me. But I think mommy always knew it was going to be really hard to be away from me all day. I know she's working now so that she can take off time when I'm out of the hospital, so I'm okay with her working. Daddy is trying to go to second shift again so that he and mommy can make sure one of them is always with me. I think that everything will work out the way it was meant to be, we just need to give it time!:)Besides, daddy says he can take time off too because he's my daddy.

I need to get going so I can spend time with mommy and daddy. My nurse Jen took a really cute picture of me today....I was being ornery....so I'll have mommy put that on here tomorrow. Also, My Sonya emailed mommy a picture of the note pad mommy bought for me. I'm not going to tell you about it now, because soon it will be on here too, then I will tell you about it.

Good night everyone!!!!!
Love Zander