Other Stuff

A quick non-Andrew post, for those wondering how/what D and I are doing.

D has almost completely recovered from the pregnancy/delivery. Physically, she's doing great and continuing to get even better every day. "Making food" for Andrew is going very well and we have an overflowing freezer, especially since they haven't tried to feed him again in the last few days. It's hard to schedule everything in three hour increments during the day (four hours at night), and it sucks that she has to wake up but doesn't get the payoff of having Andrew in her arms.

I can't say that this ordeal isn't hard on us. We both have good and bad days that are tied a little too closely to Andrew's day-to-day progress. It's a dangerous pattern that we're trying to work on together. D tends to be a little less patient and a little more emotionally volatile (with good reason), but I try to help by offering a pragmatic view of events as they unfold, as well as a longer-term outlook on the entire process.

Day-to-day, we have gotten into a pretty comfortable routine. We go down in the morning, take a break during rounds (2-3:30 on weekdays), and then come back until they kick us out at 6:30 for shift change. It's pretty impractical to have visitors, as the NICU visitor restrictions are pretty rigid, but Andrew's grandparents have come down several times (mostly on weekends). On the weekdays, we keep ourselves busy with friends and/or TV.

D's parents came down this weekend, my parents are down next weekend, and we've got a few things planned for this week. Monday is our two-year wedding anniversary, D's making a quick trip to Orange County on Tuesday, Andrew's great-grandma is coming into town for lunch on Wednesday, and Thursday is an extra-special dinner with our friends.

If anyone has specific questions about Andrew, D and I, or anything else that's going on in our lives, leave a comment or drop me an email. I didn't have a chance to respond to emails this weekend as I had planned, but rest assured we have received (and read) them all.