Pneumothorax · 2:12pm Jun 3rd, 2012
Baby #1 is healthy and doing Dash-levels of awesome.
Baby #2 is why I know what "pneumothorax" means. :|
Down from 40% supplemental O2 (to make up for reduced breathing capacity) to 27%. 21% is room-level so, as of last night, he's only at 33% enrichment instead of 100%. Docs are confident this should clear up soon (like today? I dunno.) Apparently this is not uncommon, especially in early babies (Twins means 36 weeks is the best you can hope for out of the normal 40.) Doc said this can happen simply from crying. Aside from the collapsed lung, seems to be doing fine. The alvioli seem fine (problem with early babies); it's just that he's having to work really hard to counter the external pressure pushing against his lungs. They say they'll probably keep him in the NICU for a week or so.
So despite the amount of "down" time I have, I'm not doing anything that requires concentration at the moment.
Also. The hospital blocks port 22 and 6667. I changed ssh_config to include "Port 80" or "Port 443," but the ubuntu server I run my irc client on refuses to actually DO that. No, apache isn't running. I can only assume it's bypassing the config file for some reason. Any clues?
Hell, I hope everything goes smoothly for them, and you. Well, I can't help but wish you good luck.
Glad to hear your spawn are doing well!
You should ask a nurse how to proxy your port forward out of the bitstream
I'm pretty sure its a block in their hardware firewall. My school does it too, and in a hospital odds are they're using those ports for confidential data so they're gonna be locked hard. Good luck though.
There's nothing worse than having a reason to worry over your own babies
But it's good to see that Baby #2 will be up to Dashie levels soon. I wish you all the best, I know how stressful things like that are.
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Yeah. I'm trying to switch sshd that I'm running at home from 22 to 80 or 443, since http and https work. I can ping my server (so ICMP works too) but the sshd keeps falling back to 22. No errors that I can see. I assume Canonical moved the config file somewhere retarded.
Hope all turns out okay, Kits!
151223 Well yeah, because Cannonical. Ubuntu distros are lol.
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I had a disk and all I needed was afp, ftp, and irrsi
I'll debian it later.
151233 Arch supremacy. I like to add fsv to pretend I control Jurassic Park.
Hey, I have that =D
Not fun, specially since I'm the spontaneous type, meaning it could happen at any moment for no reason
. But I can say from experience it's not that big of a deal, so your baby will be fine =)
Only big problem is if he has a second event. Not sure how is the medical convention in your country, but in Brazil if you have 2 events you are forced to operate. Very simple operation, only down side is you have to spend a week in the hospital doing nothing, wasting away in boredom
Anywhoo, here's a little "get well" Pinkie for him/her
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They put a chest tube in already.
i went to college to study IT and all the comments are doing is making me feel like i shouldnt have passed
hope the youngling gets off of enriched air soon man
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Then that should be it. The great thing about pneumothorax (yes, there's a great thing) is that it gives you an excuse to make people not smoke around you. As soon as they flash out the cigarette:
"Oh, please don't smoke near me, I have pneumothorax. The smoke is terrible to my lungs, it could cause another event of excruciating pain"
Works every time
I'm so glad I took drama classes
Am glad to hear that everything is going well in the hospital. And i´m sure it will only go on to be better. Congratulations to you and your wife. Give those twins a happy life with fun, life lessons and many orders like *clean up the kitchen*, *make your room*, *do your homeowork* and and and.
Oh and don´t forget to introduce them to MLP ofc.
Am not sure how worried you are, probably alot, so let me tell you something from my own experience: My father had a seizure once while sleeping next to my mom, so i know that as long as they breath, they´ll live despite how grim the situation looks like. My poor mother almost had a panic attack (honestly me too, though i had to take care of her, the little bro and the dog at that tme so i couldn´t show it) cause she was worried he´d die or fall into a coma. :/
Trust the doc(s), if he/they say that everything´s fine, it will be fine. They gonna do their best to make sure nothing bad happens.
Again congratulations,eat some icecream, hospital always have good icecreams. And bring some with you for the new mom (if she enjoy icecream that is), she deserves it after the birth of twins.
Oh wow... I really hope everything turns out okay
I give you my best wishes, and hope that everything will turn out OK.
I know it must be scary for you right now, but I was born a whole month premature and was on every bit of survival gear that 1960's/1970's medical technology could afix to an infant...
... today I'm over six feet tall and have never had any real medical issues that I'm aware of. It will be okay, Kits. You and your now-much-larger family are in my prayers. Go sit with your boys... we'll be here for you later.
Ack, well sounds like things are getting better, here's to hoping the trend keeps going up.
/bad joke
...Twins, huh, I trust one was a pegusi and the other was a unicorn?
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Guess Again
151826 Hah! I love it!
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Pneumothorax = collapsed lung
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Nope. I mentioned NICU in IRC, but we didn't know it was a collapsed lung until last night when they x-rayed it.
Aww. Sorry to hear that. Make sure he's getting plenty of contact though. Nothing hurts an infant's health like lack of physical affection.
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NICU = no poking the baby :(
151212 Confidential data, you say? TIME TO HACK INTO IT!
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152854 Its medical records. And judging by this post, you're from reddit, and wouldn't understand them anyway. You should go back there.
I'm happy to hear that things seem to being doing fine. I know for me things were less then stellar. But hey, all's well that ends well right?
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Really? The NICU here has a nurse who's sole job it is to hold or stroke the babies. Obviously with pneumothorax you're not gonna be picking the baby up but he should still be getting physical contact.
152950 I don't even know what reddit is for, since I'm too busy spamming FiMFiction to go on it
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Gosh, MY breathing stopped halfway through reading this. Then I finished reading. Phew. I'm soooo glad there's been such marked improvement in so little time!
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I'm on my phone. I don't have spellchecker. Besides she IS job, just like I am job.
153219 Oh, you! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Derpy_Hooves_lolface.png
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oh yeah. THEY get to hold baby. I meant we don't. Yeah, they frown on us poking him.
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Looks like 1-2 weeks in NICU is what we're being told.
Hoping good things for Baby #2. I was a premie myself, way back when--just a little over three pounds when born--and I know it was a stressful, scary time for my folks.