Day #54

Yesterday was another day of turmoil for us here in Romania. Ion, Marius, and Alina were outside with a few volunteers when a bus showed up unexpectedly to take them, and Ionut and Nadia, back to the CPS Center. They had only been at the hospital for seven days. I won't go into the details, but this was a move made by one person, and one person only, that was not approved by other important people. Off our brave little ones went to go through a transition once again.

Nicoletta's mom spent the day at the hospital waiting to take Nicoletta to Cluj for more endocrine testing. They will be taking an eleven hour ambulance ride from Barlad today (Wednesday). The mom seemed a little overwhelmed, and she was happy to have our help with Nico during the day. No word on Cleo from Iasi yet.

My mom and I spent the afternoon on the first floor, as there were only three kids upstairs. We had all the infants, and Raul in a room together. We let Raul roll around on one of the beds, and he was so happy. We would take the preemies and lie them in front of them, and he thought they were just hilarious. He was laughing very loudly, and squealing, and having a great time. When the bottles came we fed the preemies first thinking that Raul wouldn't eat (he hasn't eaten much at this hospital), but he fussed the whole time, and was kicking us. When I got to him, he sucked down the whole bottle!! The doctor also talked to my mom about his medical visa and asked how soon we were taking him! She is very much in approval of his medical visa, which is great!