Reek is the Word

Anders so stank up his isolette this morning that his nurse had to give him a bath. I later overheard her giving report to the next nurse: "Either I had to go, or he had to go in that tub!" A chip off the old block!
Do you remember that Levi's commercial from the late 90s with the dude who stops breathing on the operating table as they sing Soft Cell's "Tainted Love?" Wait a minute, this is what youtube is for...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK7kUe1KMFk Anders had a moment like that today!
Sorry to pull a Larry King (if you ever read his USA Today column, you'll understand), but if Gary Puckett's music came out today they would throw him in prison IMMEDIATELY. Anna turned me on to pandora.com so I'm taking it for a spin.
So anyway, I was holding Anders and he was turning the color of my 2008 KU National Champs t-shirt. The nurse couldn't figure out why for the longest time. She took him off my chest, put him in my lap, and tried to prod his breathing upward. No dice. She called the respiratory therapist. She and about 2 other people came over, so four people were there at Anders isolette. Anna walked in on this scene after pumping and almost immediately turned around and left. It was too much for her.
The first rule of the NICU is that you don't want people at your incubator. The smaller the crowd the better. You never want people coming over to help with things or say "I gotta see this." They slapped the full-face oxygen mask on Anders and he brought it back up in pretty short order. I eventually found Anna. The nurse told us that something that never comes unplugged came unplugged at the base of the isolette. I heard her talking to the other nurses in report and they seemed surprised that this particular backwater tube had come undone.
While Anders had another great day, the stress of this event would have made it another 3 Grain Belt night were I still at Matt and Mandy's place. I took a Yog instead.
From my first week there, I've thought the place resembled a war zone--today more than most days.