Sunday May 25, 2008

Joe apparently has good paternal instincts, because he couldn't sleep last night after Maggie had her little spell around 9pm. So, at 11:45 pm he headed over to check on the girls. Well, Maggie had been having issues so the nurses were trying to re-intubated her. However, that didn't work, so they called Dr. Kaneta in and he determined that she didn't need the ventilator, but just needed her CPAP pressure increased. Well, that seemed to do the trick, and she calmed back down.

Both girls were doing good this morning, so Mom and Dad decided to take a 24 hour trip home (Bozeman, for those of us who forget what "home" is). The nurses are great about giving us updates when we call, so we called every few hours to see how they were doing. Maggie had another blood transfusion since she was getting low (it's almost like changing oil, poor girls - but the transfusion is about 2 teaspoons). Both girls were good on their blood gases. They tried to move Evie's ventilator minimum breaths down to 15, but she wasn't very fond of that, so she ended up back at 20 bpm. If she would have handled it, they might have taken her ventilator tube out, but I don't think she's quite up to it yet. Other than that, they had a pretty quiet day.

Joe and I had a nice trip home - glad to see the house is still standing - and how I forget how beautiful spring is with everything so green! Joe mowed the lawn (2nd trip for the new riding mower) and I gathered things for the next few weeks. The big project was painting the nursery, which I figured we might as well work on since I had all of the stuff ready to go. So, the walls are now light yellow! Next trip I'll work on hanging pictures on the walls and maybe get to curtains. I even washed baby clothes and put them on a shelf in the closet - oh so cute. It must be a "nesting" thing.