I can’t believe how quickly this year has flown. Rob and Jaden have ventured back to school, leaving a bit more time on my hands to write. I’ve been busily contributing to Writers Round About as well as creating my own site and I’m working on a few different articles for parenting magazines. Simon has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ROP’
September Is Here
Posted in Journey, tagged 24 weeks gestation, infant glasses, NICU, Preemie, ROP, Simon Gabriel on September 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Posted in Journey, tagged 24 weeks gestation, NICU, Preemie, ROP, Simon Gabriel on October 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Surgery itself was “text-book perfect”. Simon did have a poor reaction to phentinol though. It took him a full 24 hours to really begin to snap out of it and finally came off the ventilator yesterday evening. Simon is back on the CPAP at a rate of six. He was ready to step down to [...]
Retinopathy
Posted in Journey, tagged 24 weeks gestation, NICU, Preemie, ROP, Simon Gabriel on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Simon has Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) and will go through surgery today at 1:30 to correct that issue. He will be placed back on the ventilator for surgery. What is Retinopathy of Prematurity? The retina is the inner lining of the eye. It receives light and turns it into visual messages that are sent to [...]
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