It was my year to work Christmas Eve this year. We started out the day with the breakfast Cole makes for his family. Right before I went to work, we opened our traditional Christmas Eve gift...
Talia...
She was thrilled with her gingerbread girl nightgown!
Alec
Kyle
Cole
Me
Awwwww
Cole took the kids to Christmas Eve at my parent's house...
After a yummy dinner, they played "Spoons"
And opened a gift that Santa left on the doorstep...
And this is what my Christmas Eve in the NICU was like...
At about 5pm, we got word a possibly super critical infant was going to be c-sectioned. Our staff immediately jumped into action...
Naomi getting ready to draw labs from the baby's placenta...
(yes, I wore the hat all night. I believe in being festive. I remember the year I spent both Christmas Eve and most of Christmas in the hospital. Even though it was for a happy reason---Kyle's birth---It was still hard to be in the hospital during the holidays. The nurses I had were so good to be festive and not grumpy about working the holidays. I always strive for the same, to give my patients' and their families the best possible Christmas in the hospital experience).
And this was our night...
Some of the best, most experienced people I have ever worked with all pulling together to take care of an extremely critical infant. I am blessed to work with the VERY BEST doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and CNA's.
We Life-Flighted the infant, and then the rest of our night was pretty slow. My family brought me the dinner I'd missed, and we had to get a picture of me and Talia with our twinner hats...
After work, I came home to find this...
It looks like Santa came!
No comments:
Post a Comment