7/14/2006: (Fri.) Our early arrival!

Apologies for this mass e-mail, but things have gotten a little crazy recently! For those of you who haven't heard already, our little boy decided to come early...very, very early.



Evan Michael Dorris was born on Friday July 14th at 12:38pm by emergency c-section in the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. He is about 9-10 weeks early (about 30 weeks old). For his age, he is pretty good size baby...he weighed in at 3 pounds 8 ounces. His only problem (thus far) is his immature lungs.


He was life-flighted to University Medical Center in Tucson at about 4pm on Friday and it is predicted he'll be there for about 8 weeks (until his original due date of 9/16). From what we've been told, UMC is a great facility, so there's no worries about the care he will receive. We're driving up tomorrow for the first time, since I just got released from the hospital.


So, if you don't hear from us, you'll understand we're in a bit of chaos trying to figure out how to deal with a premature baby staying in a hosptial and hour and a half away. I will post updates to my weblog (instead of e-mailing everyone). So book mark this page: http://soazsteelerfan.blogspot.com/

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers! We picked the name Evan since it means "young warrior" and this little guy has a bit of a fight ahead of him.

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Chronological age: 0 months 0 weeks 0 day
Gestastional age: 30 6/7 weeks
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University Medical Center (UMC) Charges: $8,823.90
AirEvac Charges: $16,479.00
Sierra Vista Hospital Charges (Evan): $4,159.74
Sierra Vista Hospital Charge (Jen): $10,474.36
Total for the day: $39,937.74
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