Yep, our nurses are tougher than their nurses

Shelly has been our daytime primary nurse, she's been here a while. Shelly gets to do what she wants because she has been here a while, she prefers nursery A. She stays in nursery A when babies go to nursery B, because she likes it better. Shelly made an exception and came with us to nursery B, because Greydon is so cool! We love Shelly. Shelly saw our cramped little space, pulled a few strings... and....we now have the corner suite of nursery B.



We knew we'd be getting a bigger spot by the time the end of the week came around and some babies went home, making room for all of the babies in nursery b to have their own space.... But when Shelly talks..... We got moved to this spot when this baby went home... now keep in mind there are still 4 babies sharing a room just like yesterday, but now we're not one of them... we love Shelly.

He had another eye check up. He is doing great, still a little slow compared to the norm, but is looking good. The vessels growing on each eye towards the nose, or nasal, are finished growing and look good. Those are the vessels that supply peripheral vision. The vessels growing towards the outsides of the eyes, or temporal, aren't quite done yet and do have a slight demarkation where they have gotten to so far. A demarkation is less than a line which is less than a ridge which is what he had at the first checkup. The eye doctor is going to see him in a month instead of a week and if things still look as they do now he wont see him again. We hope to be home by then, so we'll just take him in.

We asked if we needed to call his office to set up an appointment. Apparently there is a whole unit or at least a person or two, whose entire job is to set up all of the doctors visits we will need to make after leaving the hospital for us. Kind of like Vicki on the love boat. I think that's pretty cool.

Part of the reason I don't love nursery B is that since it is where babies go when they are not as critical, that difference determines a little who gets assigned to which nursery. We have our primaries, but you never ONLY have your primaries because there are always times when none of them are there. The nurse working with the babies next to us last night was not impressing me. She just seemed... well in dance I would say she wasn't very elegant and had a hard time connecting one motion to another while keeping her fluidity and poise. She was banging around and into everything. I didn't see her do anything wrong, but she made me nervous. She seemed very inexperienced. I mentioned this to Kristen.

I don't remember if I mentioned it back then, I think I did, but when Kristen was recovering there was a nurse who didn't read her chart and gave Kristen solid food too early, the doctor was furious and Kristen was in a lot of pain. Yep, same nurse.

Sometimes when nurses take a lunch or other break the nurse next door watches their babies until the nurse gets back. I quietly let Bonnie know that this was not a nurse I felt comfortable watching Greydon, even for a 15 minute break. I'm not trusting my kid to just anyone.