We have had the most amazing outpouring of support from friends, family and complete strangers. It’s during tough times in your life that I think you step back and realize what life is really about and who in your life is truly there to support you through the tough times. This has been our wake-up call. What has really taken our breath away are the people that we barely know who have reached out with kind words, cards and even gifts for Baby Sofia. Our situation as far as being in the NICU and all the crazy things that come with that has been compounded by the fact that we were placed in the hospital 2 days before our move form NC to FL. Our belongings, my car and our puppy made the move…we didn’t!
Some great friends of ours have opened up their home to us and we have had offers from others as well if we needed it. We even have an offer from Ronald McDonald House of Durham as they were also notified of our situation. We would love to take RMH up on their offer but it’s about 40min away and being 15 minutes away has felt like an eternity. It’s difficult to not have any material possession we are used to, I literally have 3 t-shirts and a ton of PJ’s, can we say time for a mall visit?! But at the end of the day I would walk around in Pj’s and bed slippers if that’s what I needed to do because all the “stuff” just doesn’t seem that important right now.
Today Sofia is working on the letter P….ha ha ha ha haaaa! Sorry Sesame Street joke, lame I know. We are so appreciate of all the prayers and thoughts that have been sent our way, each one means the world to us and I credit that for the strength all three of us have had during this time. We were still hoping for that poopy diaper and WE GOT IT!!!! We literally cheered for a dirty diaper and high fived after 5pm change. How many bets are on the table that a year from now we will NOT be high fiving a poopy diaper? We also had to sign a consent to have her belly button IV lead switched to a PICC line. They so this sterile procedure while we aren’t there and it breaks my heart that she may be in pain and be alone during after. We asked the nurse to call us after so we knew everything went well. It did! It was in a good position according to the X-ray and they will do one 24 hours after to confirm it’s still where it should be. We also decorated her cubicle area for Halloween! Our friend Tessa (who we are staying with) came with me to help me pick out the decorations. It’s still Sofia’s first Halloween so we wanted her to be able to be “excited” about her firsts.
