keeping everyone on their toes
so, after a relatively long while of stability and relative calmness, Nolan managed to extubate himself this morning. This was at the beginning of a morning kangaroo session with kara which ended up scaring his parents half to death and initiating a “code” response from about 15 hospital staff. i repeat, scaring us three-quarters to death. fortunately, due to such a rapid response and epinephrine, nolan is again wide-eyed and squirmy with energy and life to go around. he’ll be off feeds for a couple of hours, but all in all everything should be back to about the same in a few hours. he’s got a total of two extubations under his elastic diaper straps now. whew, again i say whew. we figure nolan is not letting us take one iota of his being for granted and we’re trying not to slack off into too comfortable a lull if we can help it.
Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Holy Moley! What a scary thing to have happen when providing so much love. Glad to hear that the NICU staff is so quick to respond. Graditude to all today as Ronan and Kara can take can breathe a sigh of relief. A note to Nolan…we won’t get too comfortable in your stability, if you agree not to pull your tubes out silly guy!!
amy
Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Shew - I hate to think of you all having to got through such a scare but so glad to hear things are stabilized and that the hosp staff was quick and effective - Oh Nolan - don’t scare us - we promise we won’t ever take you for granted!!!!love H
Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Whew, indeed.
Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 12:23 pm
So, So Incredibly Sweet. Helps to remind me too not to take any of this life for granted. Thank you all for opening up little Nolan’s life and your lives for us (via this lovely green website) and letting us be part of the miracle.
Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Doesn’t he know that extubating himself will make hair grow on his palms? Sorry, I just thought you might need a laugh every now and then.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Thank you for sharing this story. It’s a reminder of what is most wonderful and most painful about parenthood: that at the same time it opens us to unimagined depths of love, it also reminds us of how little control we have over the well-being dearest to us. In following your son’s progress I see a miracle unfolding. But come to think of it, every day is a miracle, isn’t it?
May God bless little Nolan, and keep him safe from harm — and you, too.
Ed Williams
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 2:13 am
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