They're sucking his brains out!

Exciting headlines grab attention, don't they?!?


In fact, what you are looking at is an IV site in the scalp. While Jack Henry still needs an IV to supplement his breastmilk feeds, the choice of IV sites rotates between the arms, legs and scalp.

Generally, a vein can be found in either of the arms or legs, but unfortuanately in preemies, these sites don't last very long (1 to 2 days) until a vein is blown. Additionally, these blown IV sites take a week or so to heal so then the Stick-team (i.e. the transport nurses who could thread spaghetti through a tick's teeth) is asked to come in to start looking for the sites around and under the hairline.

Although it looks like in the picture above that the IV is in his brain, it is right below the skin. (We may use this as an excuse later when Jack Henry acts like a goober as he gets older.)

The big trick in this IV site is that they have shave the site first. Fortunately, they only had to shave the area between his eyebrows and foreward so no reverse mohawk for him today. Ha!