Introduction

Our sons Charles George Fitzpatrick and Henry Michael Fitzpatrick were born prematurely on November 16, 2013 at a gestational age of 24 weeks and 1 day. Their "due date" was March 7th, 2014. We started this site on November 28th.

Both Aly and David will be posting to the site. While you will probably be able to tell who is writing by our writing styles, we will sign off on our entries with our initials so you will be sure of the author.

Friday, November 29, 2013

November 24, 2013. SIP or NEC Again

Overnight on Saturday into Sunday we got some calls from the hospital (Aly will write later about how it feels when that call comes in) telling us that they were giving Henry blood and blood pressure medicine. We were confused and, multiple times, had them confirm it was definitely Henry they were talking about. Surely they meant Charlie?

When we arrived at the hospital, the dayshift doctors hadn't started their rounds. When I looked at Henry I felt immediately worried. His belly was showing the same swelling and bruise color that we had seen in Charlie on Friday. As soon as the doctor came in, Aly was showing them and telling them that we needed an X-ray. They agreed, of course and we watched the next few hours play out like a script we had already read. Henry did, indeed have the same issue and got the drain. I spoke to the surgeons, nurses, doctors, pharmacisits, cleaners, anyone about what happened with Charlie on Friday and asked them to make sure that there was no repeat.

Thankfully, there wasn't.

The other thing about Sunday was discussion about Henry's skin. He had shown some issues around his armpits and on Saturday evening, someone had tried an antifungal powder on him that had really dried him out. This got some discussion that later led to some more confusion because Charlie's skin is so bad, whenever anyone is asked about skin they assume we must mean Charlie.

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