Wednesday June 4, 2008

Hmmm, it has been a pretty quiet day today. We haven’t spent a lot of time with the girls – but I’m headed over this evening to hold them both – at the same time I hope. (Joe has work to do) They have been pretty much sleeping – and being finicky on their oxygen needs. The girls started their Epogen (brand name for erythropoietin) shots to help red blood cells to grow. This is necessary because they don’t have much bone marrow to produce their own blood and hopefully this will keep them from needing as many blood transfusions. They will get the shots Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for quite a while. The girls did have visitors today – Joan and Tom Schafer stopped by since they were “in the area” and got to see our little girls. But since the girls can’t really come out and play – we just stood and talked about them. It was quite nice to see and chat with the Schafers since we haven’t been in the same town for 6 weeks.

Well, I’ll report on holding the girls tomorrow – but now I’m headed out the door!