Where's Shiloh?: Today is brought to you by the number 5.

When I was young, my mom watched Sesame Street with me all the time. And back then everyday had a different number. It was a way the show used to teach children how to count. On that day, everything was done around that number. So, today as we visited and waited with Shiloh, I thought about how if this were Sesame Street, today would be brought to you by the number 5.

We left this morning to go visit. We arrived at 11:15 and went inside. This began our wait for the doctor or physician's assistant to come around so we could talk about a game plan. Carrie left a couple of times during the day to pump, but I waited by Shiloh's bed for 5 hours on the physician assistant. When the nurse finally got her to come talk to us, she spent 5 minutes with us talking about the game plan for Shiloh now that he is off of oxygen completely.

She said now the waiting game starts. He will have to be monitored for a few days to make sure he is able to truly handle no oxygen flow. Also, she then gave a choice. We could speed things along and he could go home on the caffeine they are giving him for possible apnea, but we would have to get the very expensive prescription and he would have to wear a monitor full time. The other choice was to wait a little longer and let them take him off of the caffeine and monitor him for a predetermined amount of days for apnea episodes. If he has none, then he would be released to come home.

So, again this post is brought to you by the number 5. I waited 5 hours to talk to the physician's assistant for 5 minutes to find out that as long as he has no apnea episodes, Shiloh will be coming home in 5 days! We are first in line to be moved to the 3rd floor. So, things are progressing quickly.

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