7/25/2011
Brielle's Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closed! No surgery!
7/24/2011
Each baby is really, really different in their personalities and I can't wait...okay, maybe I can wait to see what they are like when they start talking. The Lutheran Church of Hope has been phenomenal in their support of our trials and a representative came in today to pray with and for us. Funny, each girl responded to this in her own way.Brielle, noting there are no Saint Brielle's to speak of, took the pious approach hoping that one day her name gets called:
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| God bless mommy, daddy, Rianne, Teagan and the nice nurses and doctors who take care of me and for all the other babies in the NICU...Amen. Oh, wait, p.s., please close my ductus arteriosus so I can quit having these darn breathing spells and get fed breast milk again ... Amen...p.s.s. Please help Mr. Obama figure out the National Debt thing...it's stressing me out...Amen. |
The doctor today noticed an improvement in the murmur (Sunday 7/24/2011) and we hope that the echocardiogram tomorrow gives us good news. Otherwise Brielle will need to go under the ... I would say knife, but that is a horrible visual. As far as I understand there is no physical knife anymore, rather it's an instrument that gently separates skin for the surgeon...
so to help our cause, Brielle organized a small prayer group to help out...
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| Probably the best of the group... |
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| And all God's creatures are included! |
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| Adorable... |
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| Ummm...maybe a little staged... | | |
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On the naughty list is Teagan. While she has done very well with her feedings, up to 5 mL very 3 hours, she had a little trouble breathing through her nose and tried to breathe through her mouth bringing her oxygen levels down...so she has earned the dreaded...chinstrap...
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| Are you kidding me, I look like that Napoleon Dynamite kid...c'mon...get this thing off me... |
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For those of you not familiar with our friend Napoleon:
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| Actually from Benchwarmers the movie, but no one knows who Jon Heder is... |
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Finally, Rianne has been sooooo difficult to handle she has been super swaddled into this cocoon looking thing thinking she's ready for transport home...Sorry, Ri, it will be a while...
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| Ri recently made an appearance in a children's movie you may have seen recently...Gnomeo and Juliet...she's just all nose right now...just FYI there is a big plastic nose piece on her, she is not a boxer with one too many hits to the middle of the face. |
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| Rianne as Juliet... |
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Don't worry kids we'll make a place for you when it's time to go, we'll just get the dog out of the way...
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| Just one of those pictures that doesn't really need a caption... |
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