Rollercoaster we call parenthood.

I was looking back on the posts from the past month and they look just like a rollercoaster ride. Some days we are on the top of the ride and others are at the bottom and a few are in the middle of a large loop or corkscrew. We have been in a corkscrew this week already. Yes I am aware that it is only Tuesday but it has still been crazy. We found out on Monday that the doctor does not want to take Alan off of his monitor for another 2 weeks at least because he is setting off the low heartrate alarm. This was so discouraging to hear but at the same time we know that it is the best thing for Alan. Obviously the doctor sees something that we don't and wants to be certain that the alarms are just from Alan getting older. Doesn't mean that I am not totally upset that he isn't losing the monitor yet. To make things even better, that was all they told us on Monday. No one could give me an answer about if it was because of his age or if we could get the setpoints changed. Just that we would have to wait 2 weeks. Our nurse did say that she would ask about it but that the Level 3 babies were causing trouble so the doctors were really busy. I laughed when she said that because Alan did the same thing when he was a Level 3 NICU baby. Silly babies. I called today to find out some more info because we are leaving tomorrow for Atlanta and if they are going to do something about the monitor it has to be done today and if I have to hunt down our peditrician for an order I need to leave early. I called again around 10:00am and got some answers! The doctor at MUSC was going to change the setpoints and they would send the order over to the monitor people. Also they would place the order for his download in 2 weeks and the setpoints would get changed today! THANK YOU!! Yeah there goes the round and round. But on a positive note we are leaving for Atlanta tomorrow and I have already baked bread and apricot bars!