adventures

We had a bit of an adventurous day yesterday. Before we got discharged on Tuesday night, they decided to give Caleb one more tanning session (phototherapy for jaundice), then we were to take him to the lab in the morning for blood tests. Long story short, the public health nurse also visits on your first day home. Between the results from the blood test, and Caleb's temperature being a bit cool, she sent us to the Children's Hospital for follow up.

At the hospital, after some deliberation and tracking of records, and evaluation, etc, they decided to send us overnight to the Peter Lougheed Centre (PLC) for more phototherapy. Then changed their minds (actually the PLC disagreed with the Children's Hospital and said Caleb's level was not at a critical enough level to treat him). Talk about a roller coaster! So home we went; the compromise was that we were to take him again this morning for tests at the lab and see if he was improving.

The "ironic" part of all of this? There was a reporting error on his levels from yesterday (they accidentally gave us the results from a few days ago at the hospital) and he had actually drastically improved yesterday (and even more so today). We've been receiving such excellent care, and are thankful for the services we have available to us... but that was really frustrating!

Caleb is doing well and settling in to his new home :) Lots of excitement, and yet another car ride tomorrow for a doctor's appointment, poor little guy. Here are some more pics (click to go to album site for larger pics, or see slideshow below).

Thanks for your prayers & care!