Dear Family & Friends!!! Just a little FYI Susan December 9th 6:45 am, Geoffrey Bing Bodemer decided it was time to show up! He weighed 5# 8.5 oz, 18 1/2". He is 35 weeks and is breathing on his own. They plan to keep him in the Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 5 weeks I think, but I don't know if they will really need to. Brett was also a "premie". Maggie had been feeling a bit off for a few days and then on Wed reported to the nurse that something was weird so the nurse said to come in. When she did the nurse said your water broke" you better go to the hospital! She had to get Jessie, Brett's co-worker to proctor her exam tonight! The tube coming out of the baby's mouth is to allow the gas build up in his tummy to come out (or is being pulled out). His color is good, with a bit of bruising from coming out and where they took blood from his heel! Maggie says she thinks he looks like Brett's brother Eric & nephew Nick and the grandfather Charles (now deceased). Anyway he is so cute and she is really cute with him. After we left she & Brett were going to go back up to the NICU to spend more time and bond with him. ***************** Susan Chandler proud grandmother of Max & Emily Barnhill & new Geoffrey Bing Bodemer born 12/9/2010!!! 805 528-4695 cell 805 215 3325 1193 17th St Los Osos, CA 93402-1425
Saturday, May 26, 2012
The Sore Saga continues
We drove to Bakersfield on May 14 so Dr Dev could view the "hole", he said to come back in a month and he "might" do a flap and for me to check out the local SLO nursing homes because I would not be able to get up for 3 weeks! As is is now on the wound vac, it creates a negative pressure and I can be up for a while! I took me about 4 weeks to feel good enough to do much tho because of the Leavoquin I had to take for the Staph bugs that were present. Apparently the osteomyletis was scraped out of the bone because I did not have to have vincamycin the IV antibiotic I had to have in 2000 and 2005 that didn't do the job!
Anyway, the June 11 appt got postponed until the 25th! I am pushing protein to get it to heal, it looks really good and the wound vac is workinng continuously at sucking away the secretions and pulling O2 into the area to promote healing as well.
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Ed has been wonderful at feeding me and helping me a lot. Sometimes the tape over the wound has pulled away and the alarm on the vac goes off so we just add another layer of tape, but it is hard for me to do as my reach is not quite good enough to reach the far points. The other day at noon the nurse changed the dressing and hooked it all up and the vac would not turn on!!! So I called the 800# and the rep was in OXnard on his way to Carpenteria and would not be able to get to me until about 6 pm! I called the home care agency but they didn't have a spare. According to Sal, he shipped one to them the day before! Some good it did for me. So I kept the bandaid on and laid on my side. So far it seems to be working OK.
Wish me luck!
Anyway, the June 11 appt got postponed until the 25th! I am pushing protein to get it to heal, it looks really good and the wound vac is workinng continuously at sucking away the secretions and pulling O2 into the area to promote healing as well.
o
Ed has been wonderful at feeding me and helping me a lot. Sometimes the tape over the wound has pulled away and the alarm on the vac goes off so we just add another layer of tape, but it is hard for me to do as my reach is not quite good enough to reach the far points. The other day at noon the nurse changed the dressing and hooked it all up and the vac would not turn on!!! So I called the 800# and the rep was in OXnard on his way to Carpenteria and would not be able to get to me until about 6 pm! I called the home care agency but they didn't have a spare. According to Sal, he shipped one to them the day before! Some good it did for me. So I kept the bandaid on and laid on my side. So far it seems to be working OK.
Wish me luck!
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