Inconvenient but good news

Although we were hoping to bring Sophia home today, she has shown sufficient progress to make the doctors decide another transfer. We told them in the beginning about our discontent with Howard County General, so they didn't even mention that hospital as an option last night. Instead they asked us last night for our consent to transfer Sophia to Bayview hospital, a Johns Hopkins (JH) campus also in Baltimore. The NICU (neo-natal intensive care unit) at the main JH campus where she currenty lies is a class 4 NICU which means it provides care to infants in critical need. Since Sophia is in the clear regarding the pneumoparacardium and jet ventilator, all doctors agree that she can be transferred.

Haleigh and I were caught off guard when a Dr. confronted us last night with a request to sign the consent form for transfer. I never like making a hasty decision, so we took advantage of our rights, as it were, and decided to sleep on it. Now we're comfortable with signing the consent form and we're on our way to the hospital soon to do just that. Obviously we hate having to change our comfort zone again and go through meeting an entirely new medical staff (again), but in the grand scheme of things, we consider this good news since Sophia no longer requires critical care.


My brother and sister-in-law, Ben and Kacey, are heading out today. They've been a tremendous help for the past few days and we love them very much. Incoming today is Haleigh's step-dad, Jay, and he and Melissa will stay with us until June 6th.


Now let's get this little girl home!!