Let's Go!

I am going home today! I am 104 days old!! I didn't have much of an appetite...I didn't really suck when I was breast fed and I wasn't very interested in the bottle either...I was a bit pale too...mommy said I seemed a bit weak and not myself, I went limp a few times...mommy and daddy thought maybe it was just a wind stuck or something, or thought maybe they were just nervous...an audiologist from Janet Smith's room came to check my hearing but she could not get a pass - she said it was inconclusive and would like to retest when I go for a check up with Dr Egner...a journalist named Bronwyn Gerretsen came to see me and take pictures for the Mercury Newspaper...after that we said our goodbyes to all our friends and then we left...on our way I really started battling to breathe...I picked up then dropped again...I then went snow white and completely limp mommy was not happy with my condition...her and daddy decided to stop by Dr Egner's rooms as we were right there...mommy ran up to Dr Egner's rooms with me in her arms...luckily he was right there as we ran through the door, he immediately took me and tended to me...I went pinkish again...he was not happy for me to go home anymore...he phoned Sister Rachael Pillay (The NICU Unit manager) and told her he is sending me back there and he wants them to check my oxygenation...he told mommy to flick my foot and make me cry on the way back if I seemed to stop breathing...I did and mommy had to flick me almost the whole way back...my cry was so soft and weak...mommy was crying with me...when we got to Parklands, Dr Shaik happened to be in the NICU and tended to me - I was put on oxygen and given caffeine...during the first ten minutes back in hospital I had many episodes of apnea over and over...once I had settled I was sneezing quite a bit and Dr Shaik noticed that my chest was quite wheezy, he suggested maybe I picked up a cold...a lit while later I had picked up again and was ready to be weaned off the oxygen...it was a long and disappointing day...

My going home outfit

Zanele, Nokuthula, Fazeela and ME!