Surgery - 1 Week Old

The doctor said the surgery on Jordyn's heart went really well.  She did well herself and everything went perfectly as planned.  Her vitals were stable throughout the surgery.  Holly had asked the surgeon before he went in about the side effect of the surgery and the vocal chord nerve that we've mentioned before.  He said the problem is that it's usually right in the way and they just have to slightly move it out of the way and it is such a rare occurrence of something going wrong with it.  After the surgery he said that the nerve was right in the way as is normal and they just had to slightly move it.  He thought the surgery went really well and was happy about the success of it.  The Anesthesiologist was there with the surgeon to help as they had to put her under.

I'm holding a clip in the palm of my hand that is just like the clip the doctor used to put in Jordyn.

Addison's last dose of indocin was at 5:00 tonight and an echo is scheduled for tomorrow morning.  She will have the same surgery if the medicine didn't help close the duct.  I finally was convinced to help out and gave her a swab of Holly's milk and she absolutely loved it.  She kept sucking on the swab.  Holly then stuck a tiny pacifier in her mouth which she enjoyed for a little bit too.  Her right eye is really close to opening.  You can see a tiny little crack in her eye but she hasn't quite opened it yet.

 Addison sucking on a pacifier even with two different tubes in her mouth.

We put Rylee in the car seat facing forward tonight.  We've decided to make the change now before the twins come home.  I think she liked it as she was a chatter box the whole time we were driving.

Yes we do have others in the family too.  It seems I've completely taken over Holly's blog and turned this into a blog about the twins.  Maybe I should have my own blog? :)  This is kind of like our family journal and something we can look back on.  That's why Holly liked the idea of posting everyday.  She has her spurts where she's really good at it for awhile and then nothing for a long time.  The point is, we're definitely doing this for all of you who care but we're also doing this for ourselves.  I gotta mention things about the others here and there.  Don't get yourself too attached to just the twins. :)