Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter!!!




We hope everyone is having a great Easter Sunday. We decided that cafeteria food is not the greatest thing to eat on Easter, especially when it is burritos. Aubree is in Iowa and enjoying her time with her cousins, she doesn't want to talk to her mom and dad on the phone (it makes mom cry). On Thursday Aubree got to enjoy a Spring Fling that the hospital had for the family and patients in the NICU and PICU. I added some pictures of her after she got her arms painted. She had a lot of fun!!
Trinity is doing pretty good. The healing process is taking a little longer then we thought it would, but the surgeons seem to think it looks better everyday. There is still an opening that they are concerned about, but they are trying different things to get the skin to come together. Tomorrow they are going to use steri strips to help bring the skin together. We are praying that this works and that she don't end up in surgery again. She continues to eat like a champ, she weighs 9lbs 6oz. She makes sure that she don't miss a meal!!! They are only doing the catheter one time a day and only getting small amounts. The urologist is hopefully going to see her while she is in the NICU and reevaluate her. She has diaper rash pretty bad, so at night they open her bottom up to a heat lamp to dry it out.
The nurses that Trinity has had the past 3 days have adored her. They told us today that they were fighting over who was going to take her home. They moved Trinity so she is not in her own room anymore she shares a big area with about 9 other babies. There are very rarely any quiet moments with the sounds of babies monitors and lots of babies crying.
Hopefully we only have one more week of being in the NICU and then we won't have to come back. She has 5 more days of her antibiotic. Shannon is leaving for Iowa on Thursday and then he will bring Aubree home with him on Sunday. I will be pretty lonely, but spending most of my time at the hospital. Thank you again for all the kind thoughts and gifts that you have been sending us. We can not thank you enough. God has truly blessed us with great friends and family.

2 comments:

NANA said...

TRINTIY SUE MAY GOD WRAP HIS HANDS AROUND YOU AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THE STAR WE ARE LOOKING AT IS SHINING ON YOU!!! NANA AND PAPA WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!!!

Shelly Seymour said...

Trinity is so cute wum! Sure wish we could cuddle with her. Your faith is amazing, I aspire to be more like you. Love ya Aunt Shelly