Max's mommy, the teacher

July 28, 2007
Becky was offered a job at Muscle Shoals High School that was just too good to turn down, so next Monday, August 6, she will begin teaching 10th grade at Muscle Shoals High School. The part that is too good to be true is that she only teaches from 8 until 11:30 every day! She and Todd are touring Daycare facilites on Monday here in Florence. We think we have found a good place for him at Little Angel in North Florence (less than a mile from First Methodist). He will only have to stay there Tues. - Friday from about 8:30 a.m. until noon. I can take him on my way to work and pick him up on my lunch hour.
Meanwhile, he continues to build up his platelet count in the NICU at Huntsville Hospital. They will keep him there until he can stay consistently above 50,000 on his own. A unit of platelets is awaiting him this morning if he needs them (thanks, Andy Betterton, for your help in finding them!) He is suffering from thrush right now and Becky and Todd have decided to discontinue breastfeeding for the time being to see if that will help him build his own platelets faster. (She is still pumping and storing breast milk for possible future use with him).
The stress levels for all of us kinda ebb and flow.................we like the ebbing, the flowing sometimes gets to us. Seems every day has both, so we are learning to "go with the flow" a little better each day. Still looking so forward to the day he gets to go home!
We learned yesterday that a baby has been born in Birmingham with the same problem. Becky and Todd are trying to get in touch with that couple, just to offer support and empathy. Without such support from families, friends, and strangers.(which are now new friends) these past 4 weeks would have been near impossible to bear.