FYI

TIP: If you ever find yourself living in a hospital with your child, just plan on carrying a bag. Reuseable shopping bags work the best for this purpose.

Otherwise, your hands will fill up quickly and you'll wonder how you've managed to acquire so much stuff.

Daily care reports, interesting magazine articles in the family area, business cards from specialists and social workers, packets of ketchup that were left over from someone's meal (the drawer labeled "condiments" is actually only full of tea, coffee, and pepper packets), water bottle, soda, your snack, tablet, tablet charger and phone charger, notebook for random stuff the nurses and doctors tell you about your baby, and even though you might have run out of questions on the spot, you'll need to look it up later and you'll most definitely forget the name of disorder/procedure/some-weird-medical-thing-you've-never-heard-of.

P.S. I read through my posts since being here. Not too impressed. Super choppy and full of typos, but for some reason I can't edit on the hospital computers.

Even the way I space thoughts affect how I want it to be read. I write like I talk, and it really frustrates me that I am unable to go back and make it easier to hear what I'm saying.

Sorry for making you wince with the poor read.