Monday May 12, 2008

It feels like today is the first dip in the rollercoaster ride. We got the results from the echocardiogram, and they weren’t what we wanted. Maggie, who has had 3 rounds of Indocin, still has a moderate sized ductus. So it is looking like they will need to do surgery – called ligation. Evie’s heart, which has had a small ductus so far, showed up as increasing in size instead of decreasing. So, they started Evie on Indocin today and will see if that will decrease the ductus. The next echocardiogram is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. If 2 rounds of Indocin don’t provide results by Thursday, Evie will likely have the surgery at the same time. I guess their receptors are just too immature to react to the medicine.

However, Dr. Hiller said that the girls are otherwise stable and doing fairly well. So, we are thankful that there is only one problem to treat. I am reminded that at least the girls have all of their parts, and so far those parts have the ability to function as needed. When we went to visit the girls at 8:30pm, Nurse Annie had Maggie all snuggled up on her tummy in her pea pod with blankets wrapped around her and her little stuffed lamb sitting close by. It looked so comfy; Joe wanted to be snuggled up like that. Maggie did open her eyes to peak at us, but just looked so content I couldn’t bug her. Evie was a little awake, so she got a story from Mom and a lesson on heart functions from her father. We think the girls should study a bit more for their next “test”.

Joe and I took a (slow) walk through the mall and found the girls little beanie baby puppies that they can lie on. Then we had Mexican for dinner – and with $6 pitchers of Margaritas, I figured it was time to discontinue the pregnancy prohibition. Thus, the stuffed puppies are named Paco and Taco.