NICU and stuff
It has been said that life is no more than a series of curves. In the last 8 months I have come to see that this is very true. A year ago I wouldn’t have been writing or thinking about what is on my mind now. A year ago the acronym NICU wasn’t even apart of my vocabulary for the most part. Now of course with Alvin being almost 7 months old I am very familiar with it and with the place itself.
First off let me say that we were very lucky to have only made 6 days of visits to the place. There were many babies that we saw there that had been there for a long time and would continue to be there for a while longer so 6 days in the grand scheme of things wasn’t too bad but any time there isn’t good. Still I think that being in there changes you. I think any parent that has to go through that really changes you and your way of thinking about things.
Recently I was looking at the Huntsville Havoc website trying to decide which night we would take Alvin to his first Havoc game. I started looking for the Craig Bushy bobble head night since Craig Bushy is a former UAH player. I found out that the same night (2/2/08 at 7:30pm) that the Craig Bushy bobble heads were being given to the first 1000 people that bring an item to donate the Huntsville Hospital NICU away there will also be a jersey auction as well. Granted I don’t know if we will be able to bid on a jersey but we can at least bring something for the NICU. Alvin will be just over 10 months old and can go to his first or one of his first games to help the place that helped him so much.
I guess it just all means something different to me now. I’m not trying to ask for sympathy or anything of the sorts. Just that we will be doing what we can to help support the Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund in the future. The day nurses and neonatologist there made what was a very unfortunate time for us as good as it could be. While we didn’t see the neonatologist much but when we did see them they would at least stop and answer our questions as best they could. The day staff nurses were always there telling us something positive as small as it may have been. They did all they could to get him off the IV and eating on his own as well as all the little details in paper work to get him ready to go home. In fact even if we didn’t have the same nurse 2 days (which we never did) one of our previous ones would come by and say hello and check on Alvin to see how he and us were doing.
Now at almost 7 months old you could never tell that the little guy was ever sick. My boy loves nascar racing, hockey and football and could care less about baseball. His first UAH game he went nuts and loved every minute he could stay awake. He fights sleeping while racing, football, or hockey is on tv. He’s also eating everything that he can get his little hands on and luckily still sleeping through the night.
So all is good here I just have wanted to get this stuff put down about the NICU benefit for a couple of weeks.
First off let me say that we were very lucky to have only made 6 days of visits to the place. There were many babies that we saw there that had been there for a long time and would continue to be there for a while longer so 6 days in the grand scheme of things wasn’t too bad but any time there isn’t good. Still I think that being in there changes you. I think any parent that has to go through that really changes you and your way of thinking about things.
Recently I was looking at the Huntsville Havoc website trying to decide which night we would take Alvin to his first Havoc game. I started looking for the Craig Bushy bobble head night since Craig Bushy is a former UAH player. I found out that the same night (2/2/08 at 7:30pm) that the Craig Bushy bobble heads were being given to the first 1000 people that bring an item to donate the Huntsville Hospital NICU away there will also be a jersey auction as well. Granted I don’t know if we will be able to bid on a jersey but we can at least bring something for the NICU. Alvin will be just over 10 months old and can go to his first or one of his first games to help the place that helped him so much.
I guess it just all means something different to me now. I’m not trying to ask for sympathy or anything of the sorts. Just that we will be doing what we can to help support the Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund in the future. The day nurses and neonatologist there made what was a very unfortunate time for us as good as it could be. While we didn’t see the neonatologist much but when we did see them they would at least stop and answer our questions as best they could. The day staff nurses were always there telling us something positive as small as it may have been. They did all they could to get him off the IV and eating on his own as well as all the little details in paper work to get him ready to go home. In fact even if we didn’t have the same nurse 2 days (which we never did) one of our previous ones would come by and say hello and check on Alvin to see how he and us were doing.
Now at almost 7 months old you could never tell that the little guy was ever sick. My boy loves nascar racing, hockey and football and could care less about baseball. His first UAH game he went nuts and loved every minute he could stay awake. He fights sleeping while racing, football, or hockey is on tv. He’s also eating everything that he can get his little hands on and luckily still sleeping through the night.
So all is good here I just have wanted to get this stuff put down about the NICU benefit for a couple of weeks.