Is anyone else going absolutely crazy???

Music in My Heart · Oct 5, 2007

Thanks! You're a former NICU dad? Care to share details? :)
Tiffany

5 days L&D / 27 weeks / 960 grams / 99 days / $825,000 !!

Nearly 6 years old and A-OK!!!

+ PDA ligation @ 9 days followed by pneumothorax and chest tube

+ 3 weeks on the vent ended by self-extubation

+ 4 months O2 at home, 2 years of Sep -Apr quarantine and Synagis shots shortly after which a bout of RSV led to another week in the hospital.

+ Only persistent deficit is diminished trunk strength and balance but she also has a stenotic pulmonary valve and a buried optic nerve head drusen. Really nasty scarring on one heal from all the heal sticks.

+ She's in kindergarten, starting to read (books & music), studying piano, loves babies and kittys.

Cherish · Oct 5, 2007

A couple of weeks after we got our acceptance notices (in July), we received an e-mail with a list of things to do.
A couple of weeks after that we received a notice of when orientation starts. Then a notice that it was changing. Just yesterday, we got our new orientation date.
Well-done to set the obsession aside and focus on the present!
♪♫ in my ♥ ("fmrnicudad" :-)

Geesh they never sent me any information yet at my school so far and we start the second week in January. I found out Feb 06 I was accepted and have yet to get a physical letter or orientation information letter sent to me. I haven't even done my CPR yet but will register by next week so I can do it next month. Not worried about shots since I've got every shot known to man since recently leaving out the Army. I don't want to call the school but maybe I should, I mean I've already been accepted so its not really bothering them but knowing about something in case they forgot about poor old me :uhoh3: .

For all you waiting good luck, and remember this to shall pass.

RNMom2010 · Oct 5, 2007

Hah! So you just hobble to the mailbox every day? I hope you get in!

Haha sure do!! Luckily it is just outside my front door, not down a country driveway or anything!

Music in My Heart · Oct 5, 2007

Geesh they never sent me any information yet at my school so far and we start the second week in January. I found out Feb 06 I was accepted and have yet to get a physical letter or orientation information letter sent to me. I haven't even done my CPR yet but will register by next week so I can do it next month. Not worried about shots since I've got every shot known to man since recently leaving out the Army. I don't want to call the school but maybe I should, I mean I've already been accepted so its not really bothering them but knowing about something in case they forgot about poor old me .
For all you waiting good luck, and remember this to shall pass.

I would contact them. After all, it's October and it could take you a few weeks to get your physical done. Since you're in, I think contacting them is entirely appropriate.

Do you have an official orientation date? If not, that could be the "reason" to call and from there you ask whatever you need to.

Also, you could open a new e-mail account and call them just to provide the new address. "Hey, while I've got you on the line, I've got a couple of questions..."

LMRN10 · Oct 5, 2007

All I know is I will have to get a bunch of immunizations, a physical, CBC and I think we get a list of the stuff we need to buy at Orientation? I'm not positive what all we need to do, but I do know I'll be busy trying to get it done!!

Also, thank goodness I am busy pretty much all of October. I work through the week and have plans pretty much every weekend with my family doing things (like pumpkin farm and stuff like that). So, it should hopefully go by fast and then November, we are supposed to move (which makes me nervous because that is when I am supposed to get my letter) :uhoh21: So, staying busy is the secret to making the time fly!!

fmrnicumom · Oct 5, 2007

I just received word that we won't hear until late October, early November, so I have a little longer to wait than I thought. Oh well, right? lol

Music in my heart, (sorry, I don't know how to do the little symbols) sounds like you had quite a ride! My first son was a 24 weeker, 750g, did not survive. I found out I was pregnant just over 5 months after he died - and I was on the pill. It was really scary. I went into labor again at 24 weeks with my second son, and was in the hospital most of the month prior to his birth. I had an emergency c-section at 28 weeks. He will be 3 in February. We were fortunate, he was only vented 3 days, but that was largely because he had 2 rounds of steroids during the time I was hospitalized. I had to administer the first round myself. My doctor wanted to do it as a precaution at approximately 24 weeks, and because I wasn't admitted, I couldn't have betamethasone, so they showed me how to give myself injections of dexamethasone. He was on CPAP for 4 weeks. Had a PDA but responded to the second round of Indocin. In the NICU for 71 days. They did not want to discharge him at that point, but the NICU was full, and I said I thought I would be comfortable with the medications and oxygen at home. He was on oxygen another few months. Did the Synagis too. They wouldn't pay for it the second year, said he was too close to 2 years old. He ended up getting RSV which developed into severe pneumonia, which led to a week and a half in the hospital over Christmas. He is often sick and has been hospitalized 4 times, along with countless midnight trips to the ED for 105 degree and higher fevers that wouldn't break and breathing problems. He is developmentally delayed, has muscle tone issues, a high degree of joint laxity which has been problematic at times, balance problems, among other minor issues. He was diagnosed with PDD a few months ago and said they may change it to Asperger's depending on how he does. He has made significant progress though so he may outgrow that diagnosis. Hard to say! He's had some minor eye issues related to muscle tone but that seems to have resolved. He also has megalocephaly but there seems to be no underlying pathology. Thankfully he's a large framed kid so it's not as noticeable as it might be. To give you an idea, his head is larger than his 9.5 year old sister's. That's not all of it, as you know, it's hard to put it into a few paragraphs. I'm very glad to hear your daughter is doing well!

Tiffany

caprisgoddess · Oct 15, 2007

I got accepted right away and this year is my second year! All I got to say to all of you . Live your life while you still can!!!:-) :lol2:

fmrnicumom · Oct 15, 2007

Still waiting... :lol2: I feel like I should be really nervous, but I'm not. (Maybe because there are other things going on in my life right now.)

Keep hanging in there! I'm sure we'll see a ton of "I've been accepted!!!" posts very soon.

Tiffany

LMRN10 · Oct 15, 2007

Keep hanging in there! I'm sure we'll see a ton of "I've been accepted!!!" posts very soon.
Tiffany

I was thinking the same thing...sounds like a lot of us are expecting to find out around the same time!

Can't wait for the "I've been accepted" posts to start popping up!