Actually when the floor supervisor got here at 6:30ish this am, she was so apologetic that she hadn’t already given me a room, that she did so right away. Apparently they called and asked her if I could have a room. There was a misunderstanding as to who I was…and she said no. But I crawled in a nice hot shower by 7am and it felt SO GOOD.
BUT…I had to wait ‘til 9 for the doctor to give clearance for him to move to the room. We got everything planned for getting to go home tomorrow. Then we started jumping through hoops. Officially Jacob is not on our insurance until he’s officially ours, but then it’s retro-active to his birth. So he has no insurance, but we need medical equipment. He’s going home on oxygen: he still needs just a smidge of it when he is in a deep sleep. For a couple of weeks or maybe a month. So because of Medicaid, IHC can’t do the oxygen & pulse oximeter. But when it goes retroactive, then it HAS to be IHC. Finally we just had them put self pay on the bill to give us a couple of weeks to get it all straightened out. (and meet the deductible) Phew!
So about noon the med supply guy finally brought the pulse ox. Then I got him hooked up and we could head down to our room!
And I learned a few things: The day nurse is obsessive about only letting me feed him. I finally think I know why. Cori’s full name is on his ankle band. She believes I’m not allowed to know her full name. So I talked it over with Angie from Act of Love. Angie said Cori is not allowed to know OUR full names, but we can know hers. So, for the record, her full name is Cori Ann Taylor. I want to keep that somewhere, but I don’t want to give it to Jacob ‘til I think he’s ready. Don’t need some 11 year old facebooking his mom. LOL! No serious. So I saw it on the ankle band. But it’s also on the medical forms and it’s not blacked out very well. Angie knows that I know. She said she’d tell me.
OK, so Marky’s appt at Primary’s went well. Yes he has scoliosis. But it’s not very bad and now we’ll keep an eye on it. Then Dave raced down to the adoption agency to sign all the paperwork!!!!! Then they brought the paperwork straight to me to sign (it had to be notarized, so the notary had to bring it) I signed and initialed forever, but he’s officially ours…well, we are his official foster parents for the next 6 months, and THEN we can make it final. But everything is all signed and ready for tomorrow morning.
And we had a car seat snafu. Dave didn’t bring it yet, (why would he, with Marky and stuff in the car)but it turns out that Jacob has to pass a car seat challenge. He has to spend 2 hours in the car seat to prove he has the stamina to ride all the way home. I decided they can do that one between feedings in the middle of the night when I wouldn’t be holding him anyway.
I still can’t believe he is mine, but it is sinking in. I keep singing Julie through the glass to him…cept I sing “Jakey through the glass…just born a day ago…you’ve just got to be…the sweetest thing I’ll ever see. We…want you…to learn…to love yourself…because that’s where loving really starts…
Oh, and I decided to teach him that he is a child of God today. So we sang the first verse over and over and over. He was very alert and attentive after his 3pm feeding. Took him ‘til 4:30 before he fell back asleep. He just looks around and watches me. I need to get a mobile…or at least some hanging toys.
Karen is coming to visit tonight. Hmmm….should I let her feed him? Maybe not. He’s kinda hard. I’ve been learning how for like…2 days now. LOL!
Karen and I watched Cake Boss and Cake off and mostly just vegged for 3 hours. It helped the time to pass. Life is cake (no pun intended) I have to feed him then hold him for 2 hours…then feed him again. They do all the checks and changes. But I’m still looking forward to tomorrow.
PS. He did the car seat test at 11pm. Failed it. His head falls to the side and his sats drop. The nurse said we can put a rolled towel around his head and he’ll be fine.
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