Another Ride in the Car

We were sitting around yesterday thinking "You know, what we need is one more piece of medical equipment for Hannah to play with. All her other toys are so bright and cheerful and soft and fresh-smelling . . . how about something that we can plug into the wall that will hiss and hum and blow smelly chemicals up her nose!"

Coincidentally, today's trip to the pediatrician happened to intersect with one of Hannah's relatively rare grunt-and-snort episodes, where she breathes like a hyperactive piglet, and it was decided that she might benefit from a Nebulizer. This is not, as I first guessed, a machine that creates impressive clouds of interstellar gas and dust in the safety of your own home, but rather a device more like what I described above. It atomizes medications and blows them up Hannah's nose, so she can breath a bit more effectively. She doesn't seem to mind it, probably because she got these treatments often at the NICU. The medications are a bronchodilator (latin for "bull expander") and a steroid.

Hannah is doing great and getting more alert and interactive every day. She's also expressed a desire for slightly bigger meals, so we'll ask the doctor tomorrow if that's OK.

Here's a picture to remind us how far we've come. Life is good.