Grandma & Gehrig

Gehrig Dean's rough start

Gehrig and I had a bad Monday!  We both gave dad quite a scare.  In fact I am quite surprised all three of us didn't end up in the hospital.  We had a hard time with my epidural.  My blood pressure ended up dropping to 65/37 and I started shacking and my eyes rolled back in my head and  I passed out.  Mark thought I died.  Luckily not.  They had to take me totally off the epidural and try to give it to me really slow.  It never really worked and I was sure Gehrig's head was the size of a basketball.  So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw him and it was a normal sized head.  He was face first and the cord was wrapped around him.  We finally got him here and thought all is well until we heard his cries that sounded more like gargling and choking.  They rushed him off to the NICU.  Mark follow and watched Gehrig turning blue and them sucking tons of junk out of the little guy.  Mark came back my room pale as a ghost wondering if Gehrig was going to make it.  His lung x-rays looked horrible both lungs were full of crap.  He is doing well now .  The doctors are amazed at the rate of his recovery.  They had to in abate him and now he is only on the nasal cannula.  He still has a NG (feeding tube) but he did start to breast feed today.  He latched right on.  They had to keep him sedated because he is such a fighter.  They started to lift the sedation today and he is doing awesome.  The boys are dying to see pictures of him, they were very disappointed that they couldn't hold or see him.  I will update you more soon I am in a hurry right now!