It is 7:14am on Monday morning. I came home last night to bathe the boys, read some stories, and get some sleep. I crashed at 10:00pm and slept like a rock. So what is going today? Well let’s start with yesterday…

Yesterday morning was spent with Carrie and Mandi at Newton-Welsley. Carrie has been able to hold her in the NICU since she is only on Oxygen for assistance. She is currently stable (as she has been since she got there) and we are expecting a turn around hopefully today. That’s an interesting word, expecting. Waiting sucks and sincerely, its the only thing you can do. There is not magic button they can press which will make things better, all you do is wait and hope. This has the consequence of making time creep by at a snails pace. The girls are about 2.5 days old, however i feel as if I have been going at this for weeks. That little fact makes the whole situation suck more, since my expectations are based on time, which I am having trouble perceiving.

Anyway, yesterday at around 9:30am I headed over to MGH to hang out with Lila. She is also stable and although she is in a little plastic case (I will try and get some pictures up later) I can observe her from her bedside. I was able to change her first poopy diaper yesterday, which normally wouldn;t be a big deal, however it felt like a hige milestone at the time. At around 1:00pm she was given the go-ahead to have her breathing tube removed. That went perfect and she is now breathing on her own comfortably, pretty much in the same stage (if not a bit better) than her sister. I stayed with her for another hour and then headed back to NW to get Carrie.

That’s right, we broke out of jail! Just kidding, Carrie’s doctor gave her permission to leave the hospital for a little while and got to MGH to see Lila. This had the consequence of making her feel much better, since she was able to ask questions and even feed Lila a little breast milk through her feed tube. Not quite breast feeding, but better than nothing.

Everyone has been great, obviously we are acquiring our favorite nurses and doctors at both hospitals, but everyone is very capable and I am very happy with the state of our 21st century medical system. Nothing is perfect but these folks are doing way better than average at a very difficult job. The head doc over at MGH was in fact one of the best doctors I have ever spoken with. He had the best bedside manner I have ever heard and I think Carrie and I felt like we were injected with a huge dose of happy after he left the room yesterday. We definitely need more people like that.

So anyway as of this morning things are looking up, I can’t say that they are good, because that would mean we know when they are coming home, and we don’t. We just know its probably not earlier than Friday, and I can’t say I am too happy about that. But I am happy that they are alive and look to be improving. Thanks again to you all, especially the staff at Newton-Welsley and Mass General Hospital, you are doing a great job.

Now stop charging me for parking I will post some pics later today.