Like Old Times

Tonight one of James's primary nurses from the NICU came by James's room for a quick visit, and so did one of the residents who took care of him and Matthew when they were in the NICU. It was so nice to see them again! Mattie was there visiting, and James was awake but fairly sedated from his meds.

And one of the nurses on the floor was Matthew and James's first babysitter. Mike had gotten to see her last night (she was helping out with taking care of James), but I had a chance to say hello to her and catch up a little bit this evening, which was great. We had taken Matthew down to the NICU to visit some of their primary nurses the other day, too -- seeing them is always a highlight of our hospital trips. (They manage to make even stressful days good ones for us!)

So, basically, we've been having a big hospital reunion -- a silver lining of James having to be back there!

James had a good day (pretty mellow, some good naps), but apparently an even better evening. After Matthew and I left, Mike said that James threw up right after he got a dose of one of his medicines -- but after that, it was like he was back to his old self again. He was rolling over, getting up on all fours in a crawling position, playing with his toys, and clapping. Wow! The only bad part about all that is that he he still has a drain coming from his incision and still has a catheter, so we worry about him pulling something with all this movement. (He wanted to chew on the little plastic container at the end of the incision drain, for instance.) Everything is taped down, but still, it's not really designed for a baby in motion. Hopefully both of those will be removed tomorrow morning, and then he'll just have the monitors.