Children's Hospital

I never thought I would be sharing a post with this title. But at just over 2 months Micah wanted to take a tour of Children's Hospital and spend a few nights so he decided seizures were the way to get there.

To catch you up...on Tuesday, April 5, I was at work and Micah was asleep on the floor. He startled himself awake like many babies (including himself) do, but it didn't end there. His eyes went up and his arms got real stiff. It lasted about 30 sec. It was the weirdest thing. We had his 2 month check up and shots the next day so I figured we would just wait until then and I would ask our doctor about it. I almost decided not to say anything. But I put my big girl panties on and mentioned it. Our doctor said it was probably nothing but to be on the safe side lets not get any shots today. She was on call that night and told me to call if anything else happened. I scooted home to let our dogs out and then Micah and I headed to Brian's soccer game. After the game was over, Brian was holding him and he started doing the same thing (this was about 7:00pm). Coincidence I thought. So we go home, eat dinner, sitting on the couch and there he goes again at about 9:30 pm. I was done with coincidence, we called the answering service and the doctor called us back and told us it was time to head to Children's. It was now 10:00 pm and man was Children's PACKED!



Here is Micah in the waiting room. I wish I was getting to do a little sleeping. We sat in the waiting room for 2 hours before we got called back. So now it is Midnight. And guess what we did when we got called back...yep we waited another 2 hours. Now it was 2:00 am. We finally get some attention. Lots of needles and pokes, and questions and rehashing all that has happened.
(Little did I know that our doctor had woken up about 2:00 am and called to check on us. When they told her we hadn't been seen I think she got a bit upset. Maybe we would have sat there longer...Thank you Dr. McCain)



This was just after the first round of sticks...poor guy. Little did he know what was ahead of him.



Protocol for 2 months and younger is to do a spinal tap. Since he was so close they decided it would be a good idea to check for infection. They numb his back so the sticks aren't so bad. But holding a 2 month old still is torture to them. He screamed so much, he was eventually hoarse. This was just afterwards, he got a bottle and all was right in Daddy's arms.



Finally around 6:30 am we got taken up to the Special Care Unit. When we came in this is how he was all swaddled and passed out. He was a trooper, but by now he was pooped. In this unit they have hours they are closed. When we got moved up there was during a closed period, but they let us stay for about 20-30 minutes.

We then left, drove to Brian's school to leave sub plans, headed home to shower and head right back to be there when the unit opened back up. We stayed with him most of the day and eventually he had a seizure around lunch time. The plan was to get him hooked up to an EEG machine so they could catch them on video and on the machine.



When we got back to the unit after another closed time he was all hooked up, and they told us we couldn't hold him. Oh that was so hard. But if he was to have an episode he needed to be where the video would get it. We understood, but when your baby is in trouble you want to hold them close.







As much as it pained us, he was doing ok. Babies are so resilient. He ended up having 3 more seizures while he was hooked up the EEG machine. I am not glad he had seizures but at least they got some information to work with.



Finally got to hold him!



Started medicine Friday night about 8 pm. Finally got to a room Friday night at 10 pm.





Saturday mid day we busted out!

We have an MRI scheduled in May. We have had to up the medicine twice since we have been home due to some small seizures. But as of today we are officially seizure free for 1 week. Woo hoo! Baby steps!

2 months

I know I am very behind at blogging. Micah turned 2 months on March 30th. Micah and I shared a birthday this month. He turned 2 months and I turned the big 3-0!

7 weeks

Well Micah is 7 weeks old and I can't believe it. He is changing so much already. He is very laid back and has even given us a few long nights of sleep. Brian and I are so proud to be his parents, yet at the same time it is still weird to call myself mom. Here are some more current pictures:



This is a picture that I took of him and I just love his expression.



Laying in the sun .



Micah after bathtime. He loves it!



So sweet

LONG TIME

I know I know I need to post something about Micah since we have been back now for almost 4 weeks. Yikes.

But today I want to share a blog and win this painting!

Head on over to: http://pitterpatterart.wordpress.com/ and check out her beautiful creations all in the name of adoption!

Micah post maybe later today.

Hello from Tallahassee

Yep, we are still here. We are doing well. Brian went back on Saturday and Micah and I are waiting to hear about our clearance to leave. I think we are on the way to making some progress in that area. We heard that our fingerprints cleared. Now we are waiting for an addendum to be written for our homestudy updating the date of our FBI clearance. Then hopefully we will be cleared by Florida by tomorrow and they will overnight our package to Alabama and we will be cleared by Alabama Wednesday or Thursday. Micah and I are so ready to be home. We love the Ronald McDonald House and we will forever be grateful to them for sure. Please support your local Ronald McDonald House Charity.

Brian and I can't wait to share this little guy with everyone. See you all soon!

Liz

Our Son

Brian, Liz, and Micah with Ronald McDonald (since we are staying at the Ronald McDonald House)



Praying Hands



Liz, Micah, and Pappy (Liz's mom)



GMommy, GDaddy (Brian's Parents), Micah, and Brian



In the arms of his Daddy

Micah Henry Terrell

Ok so I know a lot of people are wanting to know how all this happened. I ask myself the same thing. How can this sweet boy be mine after less than 48 hours. Yep it was fast!

So I would like to write more on all this but I will give you a quick timeline and then this girl is going to try to get a little sleep while he is sleeping...

Tuesday February 1st
1:30 - got a call about him and asked if I would be interested. I said sure and left it at that. When there are offers like this you just have to choose how much you are going to throw yourself in that early. I knew the baby was already born so I knew it would be a fast turn around if it happened. I knew the baby was somewhere in Florida. The social worker said she might know something later that night or the next morning.

2:30 - they want my homestudy

6:30 - Brian and I are at our Core group at the church. I get a call in the middle and ran out to answer it. I knew it was a yes or a no. It was a YES! So then I had to go back in the room and be quiet for about 30 min until everyone had finished. (Of course i smiled at Brian and he knew). So we told our Core group so they could be praying and excused ourselves from the rest of our meeting.

We have to run home, print off a contract sign it and go fax it back so a lady could pass off our information so eventually we could talk to the birthmom that night. So off we went. I talked to 4 women plus the social worker.

8:30 - we finally have the chance to call family. Everyone is excited. And we begin to make plans to leave the next night. Brian had to write a test and plans for his class so he could be gone all next week.

11:00 - I try to go to bed...yeah right.

Wednesday February 2nd

I got up ealry packed a quick suitcase, ran to Wal Mart and grabbed a few essentials and ran home and started a load of clothes and such. I went to work. While at work I am trying to talk to the bank, I need to go to the bank, the post office, Lifeline, the Summitt, take the dogs to the vet, stop by a friends house for a few things.

At this point it is nearing 6:00pm and Brian is still not home and he has packed NOTHING! He gets home, throws a suitcase together and by 7:15 we are out the door. Our first stop...Babys R Us...One travel system, one pack n play, and a few things extra.

8:00pm we are on the road for good.

2:00am eastern time we are in Tallahassee, at a hotel and of course we have to put together some things, read some papers, fill out some papers.

4:00am once again try to sleep...once again yeah right

6:00am we are up

9:00 we are at the attorneys office

by 10:00 am we have the baby in our hands.

we got to meet the birthmother, she is so sweet. (more on that later)

then around 12 noon we headed to the hospital to get the Billi Rubin checked again and then we needed some lunch and then we were headed to the Ronald McDonald House to stay.

Oh my goodness he is so wonderful. Sleeping peacefully at the moment. We'll see how long that lasts. Ok I am going to try to put a picture up. If not check facebook.

Thanks for all the prayers and offers...we can't wait to get back and show off this handsome baby boy.
Love you all
Brian and Liz