Jack Day 10.......Has it been that long?!!!

Daddy and baby are tired. Joe is very patient when feeding Jack. Jack is a slow eater because he really likes to look around and be burped every 2 minutes. The nurses kind of give up on him too quickly and so they say he's falling behind on his feedings. If he doesn't keep up on feedings they'll have to put his NG tube back in and force feed him. I know he can do it on his own. He's such a big boy!
Poor Joe had a rotation shift he had to work today. He was bumbed and only got to spend a few hours with Jack today. (those are not the scrubs he did surgery in today, he changed into clean ones before he left)
Aaawwwwwwwwww....................... CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lookin' around.
Lookin' at me.

Today was a good day at the ol' NICU. Jack didn't have an IV in and it was easier to pick him up and not worry about it getting pulled out. His platelet count went down to 82,000 from 112,000 this morning. But this afternoon it only went down to 78,000. So hopefully they will start dropping slower and we can take him home soon and come in on an "out-patient" basis and get his platelets drawn every other day and get a transfusion every 7th or something like that. The Attending Doc said they are pretty sure that he's got the HLA version of thrombocytopenia. Which is so rare that even his nurse today had never heard of it. And the Attending couldn't remember what HLA stood for. He says that Jack can go home when the platelets start dropping less and less. I'm shooting for Saturday!!! GOOOOO JACK!!!!!!!