hollow head

day one

• For feeders/growers: for discharge, defortify to 20-22 cal; need PO food

• 1 oz = 30 g recommended weight gain per day

• Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC):

where am i? - Bowel rest

- NG decompression, d/c feeds

- IV fluids for water and electrolytes

- Parenteral nutrition

- Zosyn

- Can lead to small bowel syndrome

- - Need a central line your whole life (!!?)

- Pneumatosis

- - When you see this, it’s already late in the course

- Bowel distention

• Born during RSV season (October–March) = get monoclonal antibody

• ? absent septum pellucidum

Anxiety-inducing (→ flow state, sometimes)

Self-important (understandably ?)

• ? TFL

- total fluid load

• ? babies are prone to ABD events during ROP screen

- ABD = apnea-bradycardia-desaturation

- ROP = retinopathy of prematurity

- Hypoxia → ischemia → VEGF → arborization

• Trophic feeds = reintroduce food to gut microbiome

- The goal is not nutrition yet

• ? VACTERL

- Vertebra, anal atresia, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistula, renal agenesis, limb abnormality

• feel somewhat calmer, like I

can go slower, like I’m

remembering that I can

contribute just to vibes and ppl like

when I’m calm and smiling like

it’s just better for everyone

also I feel less like an impostor

when I can say --- -------

-----, not acting\pretending

• I forgot what rounds are like:

uncomfortable on the lower back

and heels

• but yeah I feel less like this is a

performance. like it’s not. this is IRL

• more tolerable knowing that ------

---- --- ------- ---- -----------

• again, not that bad, but I did

just get a rush of euphoria at the

thought of getting sent home

- chest flutter, laugh, tears well up

• if you have time to check the

weather, DO SOMETHING ELSE BITCH!

- free time is a crazy thing cuz

when u have it u sometimes

wanna get rid of it etc this

is news to no one freedom can

be paralyzing but like damn

just sit there and take a breath

then maybe!! weather will be

what it’s gonna be!

• Kafkaesque ass process for discharge

so many forms?? leave them alone!

tmrw