The following is one of the posts I wrote for my wife’s website, www.thespohrsaremultiplying.com, during Maddie’s ten-week stay in the NICU. Yesterday at 4:22 marked Madeline’s completion of her first full week of life! She is now well into her second week, and she is continuing to make progress. Some days (such as Saturday) the…
NICU Day 8
November 19th, 2007Comments: 0
Yesterday at 4:22 marked Madeline’s completion of her first full week of life! She is now well into her second week, and she is continuing to make progress. Some days (such as Saturday) the doctors were not able to ween her off any of her Dopamine medication (for blood pressure) or to lower her ventilator…
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Maddie update from Heather’s dad
November 18th, 2007Comments: 0
Maddie had another relatively stable day & night. She’s oxygenating well and has good neurological response to touch. At this point she doesn’t tolerate change well and her numbers decline when her environment is substantially stimulated but they then re-stabilize without too much intervention. While they have continued to let her breathe from time to…
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Hanging in There
November 17th, 2007Comments: 2
A lot of people have been asking how I am doing with my recovery. I don’t think it will surprise anyone to hear that I have been overdoing it. I have some pretty powerful pain medicines, but they only do so much. The first few days I felt really good. I felt hardly any pain…
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Another Madeline Update
November 16th, 2007Comments: 0
Hi All, We are so happy to say that Maddie has continued to be stable since our last email. The nurses and doctors have made good progress in weaning her off medications and the respirator. She is still very delicate and her vital numbers can plummet just from changing her position, but everyone in the…
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