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Brief Update
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Xerxes is doing pretty good. I don't know where we left off, but he's been extibated, moved to a SiPAP, then to a CPAP (currently at +5 setting, O2 running around 38% or so, but it varies). We got to hold him for the first time on September 1st -- Tauna did kangaroo care. He had his first bath (from a nurse) ( Read more... ) -
John Stewart, Doublespeak, and the Elder Party
John Stewart is so The Man! This is beautiful.
Remember people, there are options, and there are Options....
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McCain's Underqualified VP Candidate: Sarah Palin
Palin facts versus fiction:
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/09/palin_v_reality.php
(borrowed from a friend's Facebook)
Four days ago was John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one ( Read more... ) -
Better than Schoolhouse Rock!
Physics is Phat!
OMG this SO is the Bomb!
Thank you creatrixx for finding this!
Didn't I just read a book about white chicks searching for Dark Matter? -
Milestone
Parents of Preemies have different milestones than parents of full-term babies. We reached one of those milestones early Monday morning. Tauna and I got to hold Xerxes for the first time. (Previously we'd only lifted him briefly inside the isolette to change his sheets ( Read more... ) -
Xercules!
So the past couple of days have been very good for Xerxes (knock on wood.)
The latest developments:
They started him on another round of steroids. This seems to have helped the inflamation in his trachea, and is agreeing with him greatly, as he's barely de-satted at all in the past couple days, and when he does (usually during cares) not very far ( Read more... ) -
Squiggly-Wiggly Little Boo-Boo Baby
X. is 44 days old.
First, some pictures.
Here's Xerxes at 10 days old on 7/17/2008. Notice the rigid tube from the High Frequency Oscillating Ventilator, and the bandage over the hole in his chest (on his left).
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