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February 12, 2005
The New Road
Everyone at Baptist East has been incredibly nice. Have all your kids there if you can help it.
What to say? It's been an eventful couple of days here. The operation went off without a hitch. The anesthesiologist was hilarious. The doctors were great, the nurses were incredibly helpful, everything was just good.
Kim was kinda out of it for a large part of the first day, but nothing at all like last time when she was passed out and in ICU for the first 24 hours. She's much more with it today, and has gotten to take a shower and is now up and moving around.
Wi;;iam has been interested in "baby sister" from the start, and he wants to hold her whenever he's at the hospital. He's too young to understand that he can't carry her around, but he's been doing a great job of being a big brother so far. He's been most fascinated while watching Darian eat, but he can't believe he was breast-fed, too.
William is three years old, and the hospital isn't a great place for him to spend a long period of time. I need to remember that. I was a little hard on him today and I feel terrible about it.
Kim's dad visited again today. Unfortunately, he had to fly back to Houston this afternoon. Still, he was here for the big day and that was very cool.
My mom has been up several times, bringing us snacks and drinks, taking Will out for a while and watching him, and offering medical advice to boot.
Susan has been up there a little bit but she's been hanging back just a tad. I suspect Kim's dad being there was part of it, and part of it is in trying not to tire Kim out too badly.
Darian? She's wonderful. She makes little noises but doesn't cry much at all. She has the same maniacal look in her eyes that William did, which comes from being a baby and not from being my offspring, although she's not peeking out at the world too much just yet. She's eating well, she's pooping well, and she's sleeping well. That's the three things a baby has to do, and she's passing with flying colors.
I've compared this time out to the last time, and things are going very smoothly. No one rushing around trying to save Kim's life, no potential issues with the kiddo. It's nice that everything is going well, but I still wouldn't trade the first time out for anything. I've done it all before so I expect it to be a familiar road, but it isn't. It's all brand new, and I'm glad.
Posted by john at February 12, 2005 11:36 PM