Tuesday, July 26, 2005

SLY was born Friday, July 22nd in the evening. Right around 9pm EST. I am so happy I'm bursting. I have never known what it felt like to love someone so instantly without knowing them. I flew home on a red eye (5 hours delayed) to see her. I spent less than 48 hours with her and it was so amazing. I'm so happy to have gone to be with them. But now there is fear running through all of us. She is jaundice. Now I KNOW she will be okay but I can't help but worry about her and my sister. They are staying at the hospital right now. Sofia is under a light to help get her more sun to her skin and get rid of the yellow tint. I guess it's called the bely rubin? level that is too high. They are also feeding her a bottle on top of the breast milk so she is getting enough nutrients. I guess her weight went down too much too fast but now they are in the hospital which is where they should be right now. I know everything will work out. She just needs to be under the light for about 16 hours and continue to eat and everything will be fine. I just wish I was there with them. While all of this is going on, my father is still in the hospital for this gallbladder infection. They think they found the right antibiotics for him so hopefully he will be getting out tomorrow. We don't know yet. My mother is being so strong. I'm having stupid fights with my fiance. It's just too much for all of us right now.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Remain seated. My sister is having the baby. She will be in Arlington hospital and my Dad is in Alexandria hospital. I'm leaving tonight on a red eye for my third weekend in a row back in DC. I can't believe this is all happening. I'm so excited!!! I got to hear one of her contractions on the phone. I guess they are starting to come more rapidly now. I wonder if she will get the drugs to make her feel better. This is so crazy!!! I wish I could just leave work but we have a new person starting on Monday and I need to prepare for her arrival! I better get to work but just needed to write about the exciting news. I can't believe this is all happening. My Dad is doing okay. They are still not letting him eat anything yet since they are not sure if they will have to perform surgery to take the gallbladder out.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

This is my first entry into my blog. I hope that I will keep this up well into the future. Seems weird that I'm just now doing this for the first time. I have been going through a tough time with my Dad lately so I thought this might be a good outlet for me. My father has colon cancer. In fact, right now he is in the hospital since he has an infection. The think it might be his gall bladder. I mean, doesn't he have enough going on???? I hope to start writing on this everyday. I think it will be good for me. I bet there are other people out there going through the same thing and who knows, maybe they will find this useful. Or not. I don't know. This isn't sounding very catchy yet. I heard I'm supposed to make this interesting. I don't feel very interesting right now.