Oh how I miss my camera....

So off topic a minute...i miss my camera. My digital SLR camera. I broke it a couple days before Riley was born. Broke as in dropped it on the ceramic tile, it landed on it's lens, breaking that beyond repair and there is a lose piece of glass floating inside the camera body broken. :o( i LOVE my camera. I take really good pictures with MY camera. And it's broken. And not here with me. Booo on that. I take really really bad pictures with Jay's camera. The flash on it is finicky and the zoom odd and there is a delay between pressing the shutter button and it firing and I'm not used to all that. My camera is awesome and I take pretty awesome pictures with it. His is awesome and HE takes awesome pictures with it. Anyway....this little digression is because I took some pictures that came out blurry due to operator ignorance (meaning me). You'll see a couple now....argh I hate blurry pictures. But, they will have to be keepers either way cause I like them. :o)

No change since the last update. Well, "I" did change his diaper...haven't done that in over a week since his belly was so tender. I didn't want him looking up seeing ME cause that pain. Tonight, he just grunted at me. And I emptied his ostomy bag. No big excitement there. Tomorrow....a sponge bath! He needs it. I wiped goo from his neck creases with a wipe today....some of which I am pretty sure was leftover from birth. Nasty I know, but I really haven't been able to do that sort of thing so far. His little skin will be red from the scrubbing I may give him tomorrow!

Ok....first picture. Ahem...blurry. and I love it. argh.




Today was homecoming at Duke. They played Miami (and lost)....but lots of people milling around campus today. We went back to the chapel as there was a wedding there last weekend and couldn't go in. Jay and I have gone in, but Mom, Dad and Travis had not...it's so pretty. but I think Travis was more impressed with the big Magnolia trees.






Another blurry one...he was really enjoying his thumb, tape from the PICC line and all


Mr. Don't Bother Me


He's beginning to get really vocal about what he does and does not like. He does NOT like to lie flat on his back. I am not sure if that is uncomfortable for him or if he just doesn't care for it. I kind of am leaning towards he just doesn't like it, as he is much more comfortable over all now than he was. Either way, lay him down, flat on his back....he's gonna cry. And he is a loud crier. His nurse yesterday wanted to give him a dose of morphine for that crying and I said "ummm NO. How about change his position first" (note: he was only in the bed with me there because he was due for an assessment and I was about to step out). Well, she gives me a look like "yeah right" but guess what? Put him more to his side and he quieted right down. Ha! Take that. Don't tell me I don't know my own kid.

He also has begun to fuss a little when he hears me in the room talking. Like when I walk in first thing in the day, I usually talk with his nurse for a few minutes to find out the latest news, etc and then I get him out of bed, unless it's time for an assessment, then I get him out afterwards. He hears me and starts fussing and keeps up till I pick him up. Yep. I just love that :o)

That is all for today, which made 2 weeks exactly that Riley has been here. Two weeks since our lives were completely turned upside down and the worst thing we could ever imagine ALMOST came true. I am so thankful that things are looking so much more hopeful this Saturday.