Random thoughts about life, the universe, everything, and parenting seven-year-old twins.
Just clicking to the Woman's Hospital link made me cry. As you know, we made our exit from the NICU just days before Katrina. I donated all my daughter's preemie clothes and many, many blankets to the NICU babies. (My son was still in his preemies, as he had just been released after a 2 month stay and was a little scrawnier than his sis.) Have I ever told you my sister works at Woman's as a Nurse Manager?Thanks for linking to them. It's a great cause.
Amy, I cried when I clicked on the link too. Kaitlin was discharged on Sept. 2, 2005, so the day was a bit emotionally charged already. Reading the news about all the babies that were evacuated to Woman's really brought back memories of the day they sent her home. The normally quiet Special Care Nursery was totally chaotic. There were multiple babies in ever section. Kaitlin shared her formerly private cubby with a baby from New Orleans. A group of triplets were all put together in one "pod" so they could share a stethoscope because there weren't enough to go around. There were extra beds everywhere lined up against the wall. Tons of doctors and nurses running around. They didn't even know the names of some of the babies because they were just snatched out of hospitals and put on helicopters for the trip to BR. It is an image I will never forget, and I want to do everything I can to help.
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Just clicking to the Woman's Hospital link made me cry. As you know, we made our exit from the NICU just days before Katrina. I donated all my daughter's preemie clothes and many, many blankets to the NICU babies. (My son was still in his preemies, as he had just been released after a 2 month stay and was a little scrawnier than his sis.) Have I ever told you my sister works at Woman's as a Nurse Manager?
Thanks for linking to them. It's a great cause.
Amy, I cried when I clicked on the link too. Kaitlin was discharged on Sept. 2, 2005, so the day was a bit emotionally charged already. Reading the news about all the babies that were evacuated to Woman's really brought back memories of the day they sent her home. The normally quiet Special Care Nursery was totally chaotic. There were multiple babies in ever section. Kaitlin shared her formerly private cubby with a baby from New Orleans. A group of triplets were all put together in one "pod" so they could share a stethoscope because there weren't enough to go around. There were extra beds everywhere lined up against the wall. Tons of doctors and nurses running around. They didn't even know the names of some of the babies because they were just snatched out of hospitals and put on helicopters for the trip to BR. It is an image I will never forget, and I want to do everything I can to help.
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