A Month of Gratitude, Day 10

Friday, December 17, 2010
Yesterday I got word that my boss and his wife delivered their first child - 13 weeks early. So far, things look good for them, although their son will be in the NICU for quite some time as he continues to grow and develop.

This is going to be a scary time for them, and one with which I'm intimately familiar. The Smart Twins were born nine weeks early by cesarean section, and spent the first five weeks of their life in the Balboa Naval Hospital NICU. I remember vividly how bone-crushingly terrifying that time was, and the Smart Twins weren't even that sick. I was then, and remain now, acutely aware that had I been born in a different time, it's likely all three of us would have died.

Today, I'm grateful to live in a society that has the infrastructure to support the modern medicine that has saved my life again and again, and the lives of those I love. Bonus gratitude: Me and mine have always had access to that modern medicine.

4 comments:

neurondoc said...

Best wishes to your boss, his wife, and the baby. Modern medicine is a GOOD thing.

mom in northern said...

Lets hear it for the Balboa Naval Hospital NICU...sign it a greatful grandmother. Holding good thoughts for your boss.

Phiala said...

I don't remember it, of course, but I was 3 months early. My mother had the great good fortune to be living in Ann Arbor, and I was born at the U of M Women's Hospital.

I'm supposed to be retarded, which is funny now.

Janiece said...

I'm supposed to be retarded, which is funny now.

Dr. Retard, that's you.