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  April 3, 2019

  Theater

  My role is NICU DAD (AWAY FROM HOME). There is no understudy.

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  March 16, 2019

  Broker

  We’re coming up on eight weeks in the NICU tomorrow, and it feels like we’re back where we started.

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  February 13, 2019

  Mermer

  If it doesn’t work, and his symptoms don’t improve, they’ll want to go in surgically to close the shunt.

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  February 7, 2019

  Smaller

  I’ve been trying to find ways to communicate how not-large Alex really is. It’s a difficult thing to understand until you see him in real life.

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  February 4, 2019

  Sucker

  Something was blocking the tube. I was standing there, two feet away, watching, motionless.

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  February 1, 2019

  Winker

  My son isn’t speaking to me. I stay up late into the night, searching for ways of how to remedy this.

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  January 23, 2019

  The Feels

  There were no contractions, there was no pain. She just had to pee. She soon discovered something was amiss.

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  January 19, 2019

  23 Weeks

  There’s an art to living in a hospital and not losing your mind.

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  January 17, 2019

  580g

  580 grams! Wow! That’s really good! they said. And I swelled with hope and senseless pride that my baby can grow well.

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  December 24, 2018

  Eggnog and Irony

  Merry Christmas, friends! Especially Coast Guard friends. This cannot be an easy year’s end for you, I know. The government has shut down, and while the other branches of the military are funded, the Coast Guard is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, which is not. This means that the Coast Guard is not…