Another good day

Brandon:

Monday Brandon had a “contrast study” done. In order to do the test, they needed to take him down to radiology on the first floor. They needed to put die into his system to see how well it moved through his bowls. He had trouble last time when he was moved from one room to the other. Because of this previous experience with moving Brandon, it made us pretty nervous. Amy was there and the move seemed to go very well. She was able to go into the room to find out what the results.

There often seems to be a communication problem between all of the doctors and nurses. When the Dr. first came in the room he wasn’t happy that they had gone ahead with the test that day and they also hadn’t done exactly what he wanted. However, they worked it out and the results where good. In fact they began feeding Brandon shortly after and he is up to 3ccs today. He is tolerating real feedings well and everything seems to be working.

In addition, he has been doing really well on his ventilator settings. There is even talk of removing him from the ventilator soon. I’m looking forward to seeing him for the first time without tape on his lip and hearing him cry for the first time.

Katelyn:

Katleyn is also doing well. While she still has a significant amount of secretions, some of the other numbers are dropping and showing that she is improving. Most of all she is still really cute and Amy got to hold her for a while today. We get to lift her to weigh her and change her bedding but we haven’t had many opportunities to hold her for and extended period of time.

She is growing fast and so she is much bigger than Brandon. We talked to a nurse the other day that has 17 yr. old twins - a boy and a girl. One of the interesting things she mentioned was that the girl was bigger than the boy. As girls do, she matured first and so for a while she was a lot bigger than her twin brother. In high school he caught up but for a while he was teased because his twin sister was so much taller. This story reminded me how different and experience it will be to have a boy and girl rather than two boys.