Discharge Day

I can't believe this day finally arrived. On May 22 I was officially discharged from the hospital. I honestly have to say that I had mixed emotions about being discharged. Now when it is actually convenient to be staying at the hospital, here they don't want me anymore :). It has been extremely nice to be staying at the hospital these last few days. If I want to take a quick trip over to check on the girls it is just a short walk away. I think that is what I will miss the most, being able to see the girls whenever I want. Living in Farmington my trips to go and visit the girls have to be a bit more planned out. I have already determined that I will make two trips into SLC a day. Once by myself in the afternoon and once in the evening with Ben. I know gas will be super expensive but I do want to see the girls more than once a day and with the hospital's shift change being from 6:45-7:45 everyday it makes two trips more reasonable. No visiting is allowed during shift change so we would be booted out if we were visiting during that time period. Since this week I am unable to drive myself, I have to have others wait on me to drive me to and from the hospital. Ben will take me tonight, but alas no afternoon visit today. My mom is coming up to stay with us this week so she will shuttle me back and forth for my afternoon visits. Isn't family just awesome :).

Even though discharge day had a crummy ending with me leaving the hospital without the girls, it was filled with some wonderful accomplishments. First off, Savannah is off the ventilator!! Yes, she is officially back on the CPAP so no more seeing her cute little nose, eyes, and hair but it is definitely worth it to have her off the ventilator. The neonatologist came in while we were visiting the girls and told us their game plan. They are going to get a chest x-ray today (Monday) to see the status of her pneumothorax. Hopefully the chest x-ray will show good things so the chest tube can be removed. They will then wait to see if the air reaccumulates in her lungs. We are hopeful that it won't but if it does we will deal with that too. Hopefully Savannah will continue to improve so that the chest tube can be removed and hopefully, fingers crossed, be transitioned off of the CPAP. The neonatologist also said they are working to transition Eve onto a nasal cannula instead of the CPAP. I know Eve will like the nasal cannula much better than the CPAP so we are hopeful that she will continue to do well so she can transition over soon. The doctor was hopeful that she would switch over to the nasal cannula in the next few days.

Also, since Savannah was off the ventilator they cut back on her sedation. It was nice to actually be able to touch her and have her respond to your touch. She has some super cute poses, again I forgot to take pictures but will try to do so. Savannah loves to sport her "jazz hands" as Ben calls them. She puts her hands like she is ready to give a high-five and no matter what you do she will not move them out of that position until she is good and ready. She also will just all of the sudden stretch out both of her legs and allow them to flop onto her bed. I think this is how she gets into her comfortable position. Eve seems to like her legs scrunched up while Savannah just likes them sprawled out in front of her.

Life is good. The girls are being taken care of by wonderful nurses and doctors. I am finally home. The next step will be to have the girls here with us at home, but we will have to wait until they are ready to come home!