Saturday, June 18, 2005
At Ronald McDonald House
We are here. Sorry it took me so long to to let you know. It took all our energy for the first day or two to try and fit ourselves into the tiny space of our bedroom. There is a large and well stocked kitchen, and as Jacob is more able to sit up for periods of time we're getting in there more. Not to mention a lovely family room, great laundry facilities, and wonder of wonders, high speed internet.
There's also an absolutely beautiful garden we can;t go out in - construction nearby makes the air dangerous for Jacob and there is a mountain lion on the loose in the area. Makes me feel like Alice looking through the keyhole. The staff is very responsive if we have a problem, but we don'tsee them often, but there are a couple other families here, which is great.
Thursday we said a fond farewell to everyone at the hospital:
Much as I hope we don't have to go back, I'm going to miss the staff terribly. I don't think I have ever met such a smart, funny, caring, creative, wonderful bunch of people. Many more of our favorite nurses weren't on duty for the picture. Lizzie, Sylvia, Juliet, Brandi, Bob, Melissa, Emily, Ami, Lubena, Jill, Sarah, Stephanie, Leslie, Diep, Yenny, Alma, Elisabeth, Ana, Grace, Mary, Rich, and everyone I'm (only momentarily) forgetting we miss you all.
The transition has been hard. Jacob has been pretty sad about how not-our-real-home this is, and how much he is missing out on.
The best thing has been having the big kids with him. Today Alex and Letty are visiting. Here they are Jacob in our Ronald McDonald House Room:
Unfortunately the rules about visitors are extremely strict. Only three people can be in the room with Jacob, so when Alex and Letty are here, only one of the rest of us can stay. I'm sure we'll get used to it but it's a difficult adjustment.
Jacob CAN still have one kid visitor a day. We need to ask parents of potential vistors to go over carefully who the kids have been around in the last 48 to 72 hours and not to come if they've been exposed to any illness at all. We've had it impressed painfully upon us just how vulnerable Jacob is to infection right now.
Thanks again, everyone who's written. Hello to Letty's mom, Marina. Hi to Mishy - Jacob demanded his bite-me socks for his first walk here. As she said when she sent the socks, sometimes you just want to say "bite me" to the world.
And happy birthday to Eric Stone, and to Meredith Blevins and Jeffrey Werner who share thieir birthday with us for our anniversary today (28th, but who's counting.!)
There's also an absolutely beautiful garden we can;t go out in - construction nearby makes the air dangerous for Jacob and there is a mountain lion on the loose in the area. Makes me feel like Alice looking through the keyhole. The staff is very responsive if we have a problem, but we don'tsee them often, but there are a couple other families here, which is great.
Thursday we said a fond farewell to everyone at the hospital:
Much as I hope we don't have to go back, I'm going to miss the staff terribly. I don't think I have ever met such a smart, funny, caring, creative, wonderful bunch of people. Many more of our favorite nurses weren't on duty for the picture. Lizzie, Sylvia, Juliet, Brandi, Bob, Melissa, Emily, Ami, Lubena, Jill, Sarah, Stephanie, Leslie, Diep, Yenny, Alma, Elisabeth, Ana, Grace, Mary, Rich, and everyone I'm (only momentarily) forgetting we miss you all.
The transition has been hard. Jacob has been pretty sad about how not-our-real-home this is, and how much he is missing out on.
The best thing has been having the big kids with him. Today Alex and Letty are visiting. Here they are Jacob in our Ronald McDonald House Room:
Unfortunately the rules about visitors are extremely strict. Only three people can be in the room with Jacob, so when Alex and Letty are here, only one of the rest of us can stay. I'm sure we'll get used to it but it's a difficult adjustment.
Jacob CAN still have one kid visitor a day. We need to ask parents of potential vistors to go over carefully who the kids have been around in the last 48 to 72 hours and not to come if they've been exposed to any illness at all. We've had it impressed painfully upon us just how vulnerable Jacob is to infection right now.
Thanks again, everyone who's written. Hello to Letty's mom, Marina. Hi to Mishy - Jacob demanded his bite-me socks for his first walk here. As she said when she sent the socks, sometimes you just want to say "bite me" to the world.
And happy birthday to Eric Stone, and to Meredith Blevins and Jeffrey Werner who share thieir birthday with us for our anniversary today (28th, but who's counting.!)
# posted by Ann @ 3:51 PM 
