Friday, March 12, 2010

Busy but fun week

This week has flown by very quickly. Both Nathan and Owen are doing well. Nathan is now 4lbs 3 oz and Owen is 5lbs 9oz. They are both growing and Owen might even be mistaken for a chunky baby soon. Owen has moved to a low flow cannula and is only receiving 0.1 liters of oxygen. This is the lowest amount. He may come home on this amount, or he may be able to be totally taken off. This will be up to Owen and how he does. Owen also had another round of injections in his eyes the other day. Hopefully this will take care of the "bad blood vessels" and he will not need any additional injections. Nathan is still doing well on his breathing. The orthopedic surgeon is coming to look at his hand on Monday. Nathan's eyes are continuing to heal and it looks like he will never need the injections Owen has needed to receive. We have decided to not do an MRI on Nathan's brain. At this point doing the procedure could set him back and the benefits of having the scan do not outweigh the possible set backs. Their doctors are formulating plans for post-hospital visits with doctors, OT/PT, eye doctors, pulmonologist, etc. We will have lots of doctor's appointments to keep us busy for a while. The doctors are also formulating a plan on what final steps need to be accomplished before they can come home. We have heard, from a doctor, they are shooting for two weeks!!! Sunday marks the 4 month birthday of the boys. We have been incredibly thankful for the wonderful doctors and nurses are Brookwood that God has used to keep our boys alive and grow, but we are really looking forward to coming home!!!
We had a wonderful time with Logan on our mini vacation. We picked him up from school on Thursday and went to Jason's Deli for lunch, his favorite place. We then headed to Target and got the entire family swim suites. Then we were off to the Sheraton. Logan LOVED it and was so excited. He loved swimming (we went three times), he loved looking over the rail into the atrium, he loved riding the elevator and having his own big (double) bed to sleep in. He would hop around squealing with delight. It was awesome for us to have that time with him.

2 comments:

  1. So glad the boys are doing well. Happy four month birthday!!

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  2. What a fun mini-vacation! I was so glad to have Logan in Excel today. He asked Ms. Gaynelle if she lived at the church. :) That made us laugh. We praise God as we read how Nathan and Owen are growing!

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