5 Oct 2005
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the hospital
We made it home. I was pleased. It was starting to feel manageable. I was even pretty close to being in a situation where I could upload some pictures when the midwife called and said that the placental culture was back and it had tested positive for group B Strep. A little later, a nurse from Nason special delivery calls. The pediatrician is worried that Sam might have it too, so they need to draw blood to check that, but the test takes 48 hours, so she needs to get antibiotic shots every 12 hours between now and the return of the test results. And, while they’re drawing blood, they may as well do some other tests I’ve already lost track of. So, a little over 3 hours after we got home from the hospital, we head back there. Sam get blood drawn from each arm, and because she’s so small, they have to divide the antibiotic in half and put half in each thigh. On day 3 of life, she’s been stuck in 4 different places, and we can’t even explain to her why we are letting people hurt her like that. How frustrating!
[...] Newborns get all kinds of screens. One of the ones I had been insisting on was the one for Cystic Fibrosis (CF)—I had an aunt die of CF, and so statistically, I had a pretty good chance to be a CF carrier. When the pediatrician said that we’d get the CF screen at the one month checkup, I thought that she meant that they’d take the blood for the screen then. I guess that it actually meant that it will take that long to get the results. They haven’t drawn blood since That first rough night after our initial hospital discharge. [...]
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