Scooter Chronicles

OK! Here are the long awaited pictures of my son Nigel. Just a warning, I experimented with the WordPress built-in resize function and it didn’t work as expected. All the pictures are too wide. But I will fix that later. I still wanted to post them.

The first picture is of Nigel and I about 10 minutes after he was born.

Here is a picture of Marcia and Nigel about 6 hours after he was born. This was a couple of hours before he was admitted to the NICU.

The following pictures are courtesy of my sister-in-law Paula. They are various pictures...

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There was some question whether both Marcia and Nigel were coming home today. But they were both cleared. Actually for a while I thought that it was going to be Marcia holding us up. Not that she would really, but given that her recovery has been painful. (This is one of the many reasons I am a guy!)

Nigel’s blood sugar numbers were doing very well, and after a couple of other procedures, he was ready to go about 7:30 this evening. So we packed up everyone, headed to my mother-in-law’s to pick up Molson (she was graciously watching our golden retriever during this time), and then we headed home. So it totals out to basically four full days at the hospital, though we only stayed three nights.

Now we are home,...

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