Thursday July 17, 2008

The girls were great today – except they tended to stay awake longer than I thought they should. But part of that was probably because Evie was hungry and jealous that her sister got to nurse. However, Evie got her full feding (45 cc) at 5pm and then wasn’t really interested in practice at 8pm. Janet and Pat Mullaney came to visit the girls – they arrived just after the girls finally went to sleep in the afternoon. It was wonderful that they were both off their oxygen and Evie got her IV out at 4pm. They are getting fewer and fewer attachments all the time! I had the night nurse put the girls in their own clothes last night, cute little sleepers, because I think they might outgrow the preemie clothes about the time they get to go home.

Now the bad news, Maggie had her eyes checked this morning and hers are in the same condition as Evie’s were. Thus, she’s scheduled for eye surgery Friday at 3:30 pm. Her lungs are in a little better condition and so hopefully can take the time on the ventilator a little better – but we’ll see. I guess I have a better expectation for the surgery and recovery so that it won’t be so hard the second time. Plus, I know that she will need 2 days to recover and then hopefully will be in tiptop shape again.