We are still on schedule to have Nicholas come home tomorrow!!! Kalleigh has been doing a great job of finishing up the odds and ends around the house in order to prepare for the big homecoming!!! We are hopeful that Nicholas will be episode free for the rest of the day and tonight so when we go to pick him up tomorrow he's discharged!!!
Joseph will be in the NICU for at least another week, unfortunately he had an episode last night that had to be documented, so his clock will be reset, but we're hoping he is home by the middle to end of next week! I'm nervous for both boys to be separated from one another, and I really feel bad about it, but I know it's for the best, and at least Vince will have some time to get adjusted as well as Kalleigh and myself!
I will update the details about tomorrow once I get back from the hospital tonight, and hopefully posts some new pictures of the boys as well!!!
UPDATE 10/28/2013 9:15 PM: So the prescriptions are filled for Nicholas to come home!!! We had to drop off his prilosec for his reflux, and his pulmacort for his lung development, which we will have to administer to him two times a day. Tomorrow we will be briefed by the respiratory doctor on what we have to keep an eye on with Nicholas, and everything else we have to do in order to help his lungs develop to their full potential. The Neo-natologist will also have a meeting with us to let us know about what could possibly happen, and everything else we need to do for our little guy!!! Tomorrow will be a day filled with a lot of information for both Kalleigh and I, but I think we're prepared to the best of our ability to be able to handle this, and it will be good to get in a groove with one of them, before Joseph comes home too!!! The doctors and nurses are saying that it's looking like a late afternoon discharge for him, so I'll keep everyone up to date as much as possible, but if I miss a post tomorrow don't worry!!!
To say that we're nervous is an understatement right now, but we have 100% confidence in the doctors and nurses in the NICU that they are going to release our little Nicholas only because he's ready to come home! Kalleigh and I both know we should get some sleep tonight, because God only knows it's probably the last good night of sleep we will get for a LONG time, but in all honesty we're both super excited among the dozens of other emotions that are going through us right now that sleep may be out of the question!!! Please say extra prayers tonight for our family especially Nicholas and Joseph who have given us a strength we didn't know we had, and that the strength they have provided to us is instilled into them on their long awaited journey home!!!
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