My the days have flownby since our last update! Between visits to the hospital, work, and trying to remember to eat and sleep time has gotten away from us.
Thursday, Sept 10 - The day started out like most of the others did. The update from the doctors and nurses was positive. Alexandra and Annellice's biliruben levels did elevate overnight but not to a degree by which they needed to return to being under the lights. Both seemed to be processing things well without the lights. I noticed an increase in sleeping for Alexandra. I am beginning to think she will be the one rising and setting by the sun while Annellice will be the one that can take a nap just about anywhere.
I met with a gentlman named Peter today. He works closely with families on behalf of the hospital as a patient advocate. Basically, he is going to help us menuever the fun world of insurance now that the girls are here. We were able to determine that Kevin and I just work too many jobs and save to much money to get assistance from the Medicaid plan that many other families with multiples qualify for. Had we only been paying alimony we may have made the cut - alimony is one of the only ways to bring your net worth down when calculating for medicaid (who knew!). Overall, it is nice to know that the hospital provides us with contacts that can help us through the inner workings of the system. So we now say bring on the paperwork!
In the hub-bub of meeting with Peter a new group entered the NICU. A set of high-risk triplets was born prematurely and came swooping in with neo-natal teams in tow. In light of the new patients the doctors made a qucik decision and decided to move our girls up to PCN (progressive care nursery). Yahoo for us!!! The decision to move them as a duo came down to the fact that they did not need assitance with their respiratory system and most of their biological functions are good... to quote th doctor "they just need to grow". Off we go to the 3rd floor... yippie!!!!
Friday, Sept 11 - This is one of those days that you wish you can wipe of the calendar for eternity b/c of the negative memories it brings. For us at the moment it has brought knew milestones and information galore. Our first day in PCN proved to be informative. One of our new nurses, Jessica, is a wealth of knowledge. She was able to provide us with milestones that were never mentioned before. She indicated that much of what she said was in the binder we received on our first day in NICU from the March of Dimes.... we haven't had the chance to digest all of the information yet. Hopefully, we will be able to start processing all of this better soon.
Overall the girls are still showing signs of improvement. We know have wonderfully stinky diapers of all various colors. The maconium is now passed and we are onto the less tar like stuff spouting from them. Speaking of spouting, each of the girls has successfully gotten both Kevin and I while we changed them. I was lucky in that I was able to containg the moisture to an already soiled diaper wheras Kevin had to completely change them over again... something to be said about moving slower I guess. The girls we happy with their little showers of joy we are awaiting the day when the figure out how to do number two while we change them as well.
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