How
is she doing?
How
it started | How she is | Baby
Larissa | Jim | Blacky
Thank you for stopping by to check on Joann. We hope this page is useful, and we will try to keep it as up-to-date as possible. Regular visiting hours for Joann are daily 6:30 PM to 7:30, and
additionally, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday (this is expanded from yesterday).
We dearly appreciate your love, concern, prayers, and efforts to travel to Albany. Joann
needs to conserve her energy for herself and Larissa, and we ask that you keep your visits
brief. There are many fine restaurants, museums, historic sites, architecture, and other
attractions in the capital region, and we suggest that you combine one or more of them
with your visit to Joann. For more information, see our Around
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How she is: Joann's second round of chemotherapy will start today. For some reason, Wednesday nights are particularly frightening to her.
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About baby Larissa: Larissa continues to do very well. Her gestational age is 30 weeks today. She has been on on unassisted breathing since 7:00 AM yesterday morning. She started on formula yesterday, through the feeding tube -- 5cc every 6 hours. She is tolerating it well. She gained 35 grams yesterday -- she should have lost about 5 grams to track the chart. She practices her sucking, swallowing, and breathing coordination with a pacifier. She should be moving to an isolette today or tomorrow. She visited with Mommy twice yesterday. We will archive email to Larissa at larissa@iswis.com
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What about Jim? Jim said to a psychiatrist acquaintance yesterday morning, "Some of my family are worried that I'm becoming manic." The psychiatrist said, "You had better be manic in a situation like this, or you'll have a nervous breakdown."
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And Blacky? Blacky is staying with Rosmarie Shaughnessy at Spillway Road.
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