SATX Departure Prep

The Man Cave has been decommissioned...
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Mission Status

(Two month PEDS appt 13:59 EDT)

T+: 38 days 10 hours 46 minutes
Length: 18.5" (47cm)
Head circumference: 32 cm
Weight: 5.1 lbs (2.2 kilos)
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#SAHCG: Stay-At-Home-Care-Giver

So acronym and #hastag soup: SAHD, SAHM etc etc.

SAHD: Stay-At-Home-Dad

A stay-at-home dad (alternatively, stay at home father, house dad, SAHD, househusband, or house-spouse) is a term used to describe a father who is the main caregiver of the children and is the homemaker of the household. As families have evolved, the practice of being a stay-at-home dad has become more common

SAHM: Stay-At-Home-Mom

Some contemporary women are leaving the paid workforce and concentrating full-time on parenting. Many of these women have left the paid workforce so that they can focus on raising their children, particularly through the children's early years before entering kindergarten. There is considerable variability within the stay-at-home mother population with regard to their intent to return to the paid workforce. Some plan to work from their homes, some will do part-time work, some intend to return to part or full-time work when their children have reached school age, some may increase their skill sets by returning to higher education, and others may find it economically feasible to not return to the paid workforce.

Well that's more than a little limited and myopic in my view. My span of tactical, operational and logistical responsibilities, taskings and concerns include:

-A 34 day-old (preemie)

-A 43 year-old

-A 67 year-old

-A 92 year-old

-A 14 pound, 10+ year-old cat

-A severn pound 3+ year-old cat

In fact, it can be quite "entertaining" trying to to keep track of who needs to be where, when, "why" and pulling it all off...

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."

--E.B. White

Carer (UK, NZ, Australian usage) and caregiver (US, Canadian usage) are words normally used to refer to unpaid relatives or friends who support people with disabilities. The words may be prefixed with "family" "spousal", "child" to distinguish between different care situations. The general term dependent/dependant care is also used for the service provided.^[1] Terms such as "voluntary caregiver" and "informal carer" are also used occasionally, but these terms have been criticized by carers asmisnomers because they are perceived as belittling the huge impact that caring may have on an individual's life, the lack of realistic alternatives, and the degree of perceived duty of care felt by many relatives.

A widely-accepted definition of a carer/caregiver is:

Someone whose life is in some way restricted by the need to be responsible for the care of someone who is mentally ill, mentally handicapped, physically disabled or whose health is impaired by sickness or old age.

"It's my Duty Isn't it?"

—Baroness Pitkeathley (1989)

So I propose that the hastag #SAHCG, Stay-Home-Care-Giver, be added to The Twitterverse.

Because, quite frankly, some of us are highly engaged in dynamic tactical situations that #SAHM or #SAHD simply does not begin to describe/define...

Washington Hospital Center

Tweets to turn into blog post later

[1/3] Washington Hospital Center SUCKS DOGS BALLS. Very little infection/vector control or access control #medstar

[2/3] "Nurse" said stuff about "'contact' infection"--like anybody touches my baby--and then said something about "typhoid"... #medstar

[3/3] So, our friend is on a floor w/an infectious vector and there are NO warnings!?! #FAIL #medstar
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SIT-REP/Update

Elapsed Mission Time (time on the surface): 22 days 17 hours 17 minutes

Length: 45 cm (17.716535 in)
Head: 31 cm (12.204724 in)
Waist: 28 cm (11.023622 in)
Weight: 2.11 kilos (4.6517537 lbs)

Up to 45 cc's per feed

(Bunch of posts to write--when I get the time)

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SIT-REP: Day 4 of our 20+ year mission

"Crash" drank five (5) cc's of mom's milk this morning, then eight (8) cc's of the 10 cc goal at "lunch" and did a pretty good job three hours later.

He's still in the NICU, but breathing ambient room air on his own and has been weaned off most the meds.

He appears to be geometrically improving/progressing on most parameters...

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

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SIT-REP: End of Day 3/Start of Day 4

SWEET! First no ventilator and now no more oxygen--"Crash" is breathing ambient air for himself!


VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI


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