Pip Squeak, its not just a fun name

I nicknamed the child Pip Squeak shortly after she was born. Little did I know that she actually squeaks. Occasionally, when I hold her, she lets out these little barely audible little squeaks when she moves. They are so cute!

 

Pip Squeak is not so Pip Squeak anymore. We made it all the way to the 4 pound mark a day ago. And, yesterday, she took 20ccs of formula/milk from a bottle and had no problems doing it. Again, the doctors are amazed by this because she’s only 33 weeks and 33 weekers usually can’t handle eating from a bottle. She wanted more than the 20ccs but they decided that was enough. She’s rocking and rolling folks. We might have her home sooner than later.

 

I was able to go to rounds with the SU on Wednesday and it appears that Pip Squeak’s iron levels are low so they were thinking about giving her some medication to bring that up or wait and see if it comes up on its own. They said that a lot of times it comes up on their own and since she was doing so well they anticipated that it would. They also discovered that her caffeine levels were a bit low. It was at 8 and usually they like it around 15 so they ordered up some more caffeine. Yay for caffeine!

 

I keep having really odd dreams and I don’t know why. The other day it was the hockey dream. Last night it was really weird.

I found myself working for a former employer in Lubbock, TX (the employer shall remain nameless). My job was customer service for a certain cable company that likes to throttle its users’ bit torrent traffic (read between the lines, its fantastic!). It went something like this:

 

*ding*

“Thank you for calling AT&T wireless… whoops, I mean Fantastic, how can I help you?” (In my mind I was all oops, I screwed that up, I didn’t give the caller my name)

“My name is Bob and I’d like to cancel my service. Who am I speaking to?”

“I’m sorry about that Bob, My name is Cobalt. I’m sorry to hear that you want to cancel your service. Will you tell me why you’d like to do that?”

“Well with gas prices being so high and money being tight I just can’t afford this fantastic HD service.”

“I understand that Bob, and I’m sorry you have to cancel your service. May I place you on hold so I can gather some information?”

“Sure.”

“Thanks Bob, I’ll be right back.”

*put the customer on hold*

I pop up like a gopher popping up out of a hole to find someone to help me.

“Pssst, hey! I got a guy who wants to cancel his service and I’m new and I don’t know how to do it. Can you help me?”

“I’m busy, I have my own customer on the line, you’re going to have to go find someone to help you.”

“Ok thanks.”

I get up and I walk halfway across the building picturing everything perfectly as if I was there. Then I ran into someone who I knew from working there before.

“Oh my gosh. Is that you cobalt?”

“Yeah its me Suzy.”

“You’re back?!?”

“For a little while.”

“How long?”

“About three weeks.”

 

And then I woke up and thought what the h-e-double hockey sticks was that? I looked at the clock and it said 2am. I just groaned and rolled over trying to go back to sleep. I haven’t been sleeping very well the last few days and I’m not sure whats up with that. I think I’m stressed out over some things going on here that I won’t get into because its not the proper place or method. I’m hoping those things will be resolved soon so I can get some semi normal rest.