Still waiting...

You know that old bit where some prankster attaches a dollar bill to an invisible filament and leaves it just lying there on the sidewalk? And when an unsuspecting victim leans down to retrieve said dollar, the prankster yanks it a few feet out of reach; poor victim shuffles towards it, leans down again, and the bill is once again yanked out of reach. Repeat. Hilarity.

Well right now Kris and I feel like that sorry fool reaching towards the bill. AO's homecoming has been deferred by "just a few more days" so many times it is starting to feel like a cruel joke. We're frustrated of course, but it really is in his best interest to keep him in the hospital until they are absolutely sure he is ready to come home. For a few days he wasn't gaining any weight, so they added fortifier back to his milk. He started to gain weight but then he was spitting up too much. Add to this the fact that the fortifier the hospital uses is prohibitively expensive for home use. We are trying to see if we can use powdered formula as a breast milk fortifier. If this works, and he continues to gain weight, then he can come home.

They say this could be as early as tomorrow, Wednesday the 16th of September, 88 days after he was first admitted to the NICU. That's right, they say he could come home tomorrow. Stop me if you've heard this one before.