Before you get too far into this entry, I am upset and am about to use some language that I’ve not used on this blog before.
I knew I shouldn’t have thanked those bastards until I got my baby home. After 4 months of dealing with lung problems, ventilators, blood pressure problems, and the constant threat of infection, it appears that only thing that can stop Jordan is a damn beaurocrat. Jordan’s doctor is off today so he was seen by the doctor on call. This doctor apparently works on commission. The mama Ali and I roomed in with him last Friday. As I mentioned, he was fussy, but for obvious reasons. He took all of his food, had some messy diapers, cried a lot, and his parents got no sleep. This should all be par for the course for a new baby. However, the doctor wants us to do it again. The only reasons that make sense to me are that he either wants to make sure that the baby doesn’t ever cry at night, he works on commission, or apparently having someone slice off half your privates shouldn’t make you cry. That isn’t the best part though. Since both sets of grandparents will be watching him during the day after we go back to work, the doctor wants them to room in as well. Each room in requires someone to stay alone with the baby for 8 hours. The doctor wants to hold on to the baby until Friday – DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE BABY IS HEALTHY!!! That’s like the mechanic wanting to have you sit in you car idling for a few hours even though he says that the car is fixed. I want to shift this thing into gear and go!
Right now the plan is for everyone to complete the room in by Wednesday night, we room in overnight Wednesday, he has an eye doctor appt Thursday and then we are taking him home. I don’t know if they will willingly discharge or not though. I suppose we give them a choice and then make sure they make the right choice. I’m not saying that I would do anything unethical, I am just really motivated. Now, on a totally unrelated topic, my father once broke out of Turkish prison with a missing eye, a gunshot wound to his left shoulder, a shoelace, and a gum wrapper. Rudy Giuliani once called him sir. He REALLY wants his grandson home by Thursday evening.
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I thought I told you never to recount my time in a Turkish prison. You are, however, allowed to talk of the 18 years I spent in a Soviet gulag. It is so unlike you to let anything upset you. You become more like me on a daily basis.
BTW, I don't have a problem rooming in w/ JJV on Wednesday. It's about time that he learns that I sleep more hours each day than he does.
That is ridiculous. You have been at the hospital and are most certainly capable of caring for Jordan. It makes you wonder why you even offered the info that the grandparents would be watching him during the day. Is it really their business?
Well you know what they say, Big Ali, no good deed goes unpunished. Please let that doctor in charge of causing this delay know that he will have to find another way out of Florida other than through the State of Georgia. I say this because I believe that in the future he will find the route through Georgia to be . . . difficult.
Ahhh, bureaucracies. That brings us back to that whole do-first-apologize-later theory we talked about...I'm not going to spell it out for you, but every woman I know has a "movie theater" pocketbook...baby J is about the size of a 2 liter and a bag of chips. I know you know the routine, so it shouldn't be a problem to figure out some creative way to make it happen :) Seriously, (other than calling DFACS)what can they do? :) This is the last week in school before summer vacation, the last mile on the 20 hour road trip...it's harder than the rest, but it will happen.
I'm very excited to read that Jordan will be coming home soon. Congratulations to the Ross family on giving each other such wonderful, loving support.
Please give Jordan my phone number so he can call me when his paternal grandfather is unreasonable.
Much love, Gail
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