Best Snow Day Ever

My work has Safety as its number 1 value. It can sometimes be a hard sell. A lot of people believe that the number 1 value of the company is making money. Ask management at Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, Total what their top priority is and the will say safety. Ask the man in the street and I doubt you will get the same answer. As I said, it can be a hard sell. So, on a day when the news outlets and the local governments are saying that the roads are going to be almost unprecedentedly treacherous around Houston, is it appropriate for a safety first company to ask their employees to drive to work? Well, yes, because it was unlikely to be as dangerous as was being reported. Or, no, take the opportunity to demonstrate the company values and close the office. They did the latter and I was pleased. 

Aly and I took a very careful drive to the hospital and spent the day with Charlie and Henry. 

And what a day it was. 

Read all the posts and you'll see we deliver news where the good news has been in the "it's good news because It could have been way worse" category. Not today. Today was good news, plain and simple. Our boys have proven to be sufficiently developed to not have to live in an incubator. We had been working towards it and I wrote about it earlier in the week. However, it was such a thrill to see it happen. 

When we arrived, they were already "tops off". Basically, the incubator was switched off and the lid was up. Henry was awake and looking around. You can see a video of it here, if you like. 

It wasn't too much of a process, really. Pick up the boy, wheel out the old bed and wheel in the new. Next up, Aly and her mother are going to be getting some crib bling for them.

It is really great that they are far enough along now that they can be in these beds. From a little more selfish point of view, it is also much easier to stare at them, which is great too!

We have another even bigger step forward coming up in the next few days. The plan is to take them off of the ventilator and try them with a technique that doesn't involve a tube down the throat. It's called CPAP. Watch this space.

Just so you know, if Aly doesn't write a post soon, I am going to go on strike. 

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