Happy Thanksgiving

Days 65, 66, 67, 68 & 69

There are so many many many blessings to be thankful for this fantastic day.

Prudence weighs just over 3lbs.  She is also starting to take bottles much better and working on big girl stuff.  Her legs are doing fantastically well with physical therapy as well.  Over all things are looking on the up and up.  She could actually move to the intermediate side but everyone in NIC 1 likes Prudence so much that they are hesitant.  She has been in her spot for 10 weeks now and I am scared to imagine Prudence anywhere else.  The only other room I have ever seen her in was an operating room.  Crazy!

This week we did do a bit of an itty bitty back slide.  So many people know of ROP or retinopathy of prematurity.  Well....unfortunately Prudence has developed a very mild form of that.  So that means more eye exams.  Those are brutal.  It also means that if it doesn't resolve until after we leave the hospital that we could have another specialist on board.  Sigh.

Annnnnnd she also got her two month vaccines.

And don't get me started on vaccines causing autism.  I think that is horse you know what.  And even if it isn't, I won't risk her life by not vaccinating her against things like the whooping cough.  I understand how vaccines aren't always necessary...but seriously folks.  Ask a real doctor if there are any real studies about vaccines and autism and the answer is no.  There isn't.  Period.

Anywho, overall we are doing well.  Juan and I are starting to abandon hope on her coming home for Christmas and thats just something we are going to have to contend with.  Of course, it is the season for miracles.

Thanksgiving has turned into something of a joke.  When I was a kid, there was something magical about the day of turkey and pumpkin pie.  Of cousins getting together and playing all day and adults strewn all over the house cooking/watching movies/ talking/drinking.  Nothing was open except the movie theater.  And now before thanksgiving meals have hardly had time to hit our stomachs, we are already talking about the shopping that will be done right after the meal.  Its depressing.

Today for me was about family.  It was about love and time together and taking time to be thankful for all our blessings.  I feel like I was robbed of that a bit by peoples discontentment with taking one full day off to be with family and say forget the outside world for right now.

I am thankful for my husband.  The moments I share with him are worth the world.  The laughs, the tears and everything in between, he is the pillar of strength, love and humility that keeps me standing in shaky times.

I am thankful for my Lucy.  She has the ability to put a smile on almost anybody's face.  She is a handful and wonderfully frustrating but at the end of the day, I cannot be more grateful that I was blessed with such a delightful, fun, and happy daughter.







I am thankful for my Prudence.  She has taught me more than I ever knew about myself and continues to teach me new lessons in patience, trust, love and faithfulness every single day.  It is so rewarding to watch her grow into the tiny person she will become.  I thank God every minute/hour/day for molding my sweet baby day by day, even outside my womb.

I am thankful for my parents.  I don't always say it like I should.  I could not do this without you guys.  Of all the support thats been offered, you are the only two people who have actually walked this with Juan and I almost step by step.  We can never thank you guys enough.

Sorry I seem to ramble but I guess I really want people to stop with the greed.  Close the stores on thanksgiving and send people home to their families.  And remember its not about TV's, toys, great deals or waiting in line for the thrill of it.  We are supposed to take this time to be thankful for the real blessings, the people in our lives.  Take one day off of the year and just be thankful.

Goodnight and sweet dreams from micropreemie world.......