| 11/14/08 12:50 AM |
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Tara Wismar (Nickell)
Gwen,
not sure what you meant by EI, if you mean the monitors and oxygen, then I had no problems at all, the hospital set it all up and Home Care delivered new leads and oxygen every week. If you mean early intervention, we were never offered that, guess we were very lucky that with a 1 pound 3 pounce baby that the doctors did not think he needed that, or I am sure they would have made sure he had it. We were also lucky that we have excellent insurance and we did not have to pay a dime for anyhting. I always say he is only about 160,000 dollars shy of being a million dollar baby. His incubator was almsot 2 grand a day, but as he moved pod to pod the parice came down a bit. The nursing was even itemized. I saved all the papers from Blue Cross so wecan show him one day. But, John did good as far as the physical part of "preemi-hood" went. He was about 4 or 5 months behind for crawling, walking, etc... The only thing we walked out with was glasses, and they are not even because he was a preemie, one eye was just startng to be a liitle lazy, we did not notice it but the when he was is for a regular eye appt. the doctor did. It is fine now and he is just tad nearsighted. He did have ROP, but that went away before he came home from the NICU. We are very glad to take the glasses and run and never looked back at the problems a 24 week preemie could have. We held our breath until he was 2, because of the CP thing and preemies. Although the doctors told us that when a child does have CP you usually do not see the signs until around 18 or 24 months. Being pregant was very hard for us, with John being so early and losing our middle daughter, Emily and with Ryann, that terrible quad screen cam back high for Down Syndrome. We once again were terrified and after waitng 2 weeks for our amnio results we were able to sit and enjoy the rest of the pregancy. Well, I did, my husband worried constantly. Every visit (we had an ultrasound and a visit once a week after 2o weeks) he asked the doctors if the amnio results could change, they had to tell him every time, NO! How early was your daughter? How long was she in the NICU?
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