Picture Pages

Ok... so for those of you who are not literary motivated (or those who like books with pictures better), I'm finally going to post pictures. But first, an update.

Liz is doing well, and is most likely going to go home tomorrow. It's been a long week and it's been taking a toll on her, so it will be nice for her to sleep at home for a bit and not be on bed rest.

Emma is doing well, however the honeymoon period appears to be over. Emma had a little hiccup this morning as her blood pressure dropped a bit. The doctors believe this was because Emma was working hard to breathe on her own, so the doctors increased the ventilator pressure and frequency so Emma doesn't have to work hard to breathe. The doctors believe if Emma doesn't have to work as hard, her blood pressure will return to normal (which it has).

In addition, Emma's sodium levels have been a bit off, but the doctors and nurses have been working on that. This is normal though... a good comparison would be if you tried to control a diabetic's blood sugar level by only watching what they eat and taking blood tests from time to time, but receiving no feedback from the patient.

Overall, the staff at Meriter has been doing a great job... and on to the pictures...


Here is Liz a couple weeks ago (although on her side...)


This is Liz in the hospital the first time (about two weeks ago)...



This is Mike, Derek and Justin reliving the glory days (nothing to do with Emma, but you gotta love the hat...)


And this is Emma... the color is a bit off because of a special light they have to have on her for the first week to prevent jaundis. She also has to wear sunglasses to protect her baby blue eyes... She also has lots of tubes to monitor her progress, give her medicine and to give her food and water. Oh yeah, and to help her breathe...






More pictures to come... I'm going to try and get some pictures w/out the funky light. In addition, I'll get some pictures with her eyes open (and maybe holding her mom's finger).