NICU Reunion

Today was a special treat.  After 4 1/2 years without, the hospital Jocelyn was born in, finally did another NICU reunion.  It's been 5 years since Jocelyn was born, so it's hard to remember all the nurses and doctors. Over the course of 33 days, there were a lot of them.  But we got to see two of the most important ones today.

Dr. Blechman was Jocelyn's primary doctor.

And Nurse Susan was pretty special as well.  Because of her, we got to hold Jocelyn for the first time when she was 8 days old.

Unfortunately, the one we wanted to see the most, was Nurse Joanna, and she was not there.  Lucky for her, but not so lucky for us, she retired last year and moved to Florida.  I gave Susan my email to pass on to her.  It would be nice to be in touch with her again.  In homage to our Mommy Joanna...

The reunion had some fun activities for kids.  They had some dancing.  And a puppeteer.















And the kids got little stuffed ponies, cowboy hats, and balloons, and they got their faces painted.  No surprise, Jocelyn got a unicorn!















Afterwards, we got our picture taken, just because.

The oddest thing about today?  The last time I was at this banquet facility, was 27 years ago for my prom.  Yikes!

Discovered this news article today about last nights event.  If you look closely, you can see Jocelyn in a couple places!
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/features/featured/stories/howard-county-general-celebrates-years-nicu-success-706.shtml#.UT3O-hzU_2p