Update on Gracie

Gracie is recovery like a pro! She had a great day today- little fussiness and good appetite. We were even able to travel up to Plainview to celebrate cousin Anna's 1st birthday. Thanks for all your prayers. We will find out Tuesday about Lily's schedule. Have a good Labor Day!

Gracie has tubes & is missing some adenoids!

We arrived at the SurgiCenter at 7 am this morning to get both girls tubes in their ears and Gracie to get her adenoids taken out. They called us back to the pre-op area for initial vitals. Gracie had a snotty nose, but her lungs sounded clear to the anesthesiologist said she was good to go. Lily, on the other hand, was quite upset from not being able to eat and he said that she had "ronchi" (sounds like snoring) in her lungs. He said that proceeding would be dangerous and that he was cancelling her surgery. My parents had come up, so Lily waited with them in the waiting room (with milk) while Walt and I stayed with Gracie.
Funny side note: When we got back to the pre-op room, the couple next to us also had twins and they actually are in the girls' class at daycare! They were also there to get tubes. One of the boys also had to pospone his surgery because of chest congestion.
They came and got Gracie and Walt & I went to wait in the lobby. We waited about 20 minutes and then the doctor came out and let us know everything went very well. He said that her ears looked bad, the left worse than the right. He definitely thought the tubes were needed. He said that he suctions the ears while placing the tubes, and her left ear was like "suctioning out laffy taffy"! He tols us that we would be able to go back and see her in about 15-20 minutes.
When they called us back, Gracie was still out of it and very agitated. She had an IV secured to one of her wrists and was NOT liking that at all! We were able to give her some juice and the nurse gave her some Tyelenol with codeine to help the pain. We stayed in the post-op room 30-45 minutes and then got to come home. We dropped Lily off at daycare so she could play with her friends, and so that Gracie would have our full attention.
We got home and Gracie rested off & on for awhile. We watched some Praise Baby and VeggieTales. She ate some yogurt and jello throughout the afternoon, while also having plenty of fluids. She still is fussy, but doing very well considering. We will call on Tuesday to schedule Lily's surgery- I think it will be on Friday. I'll keep everyone posted on the recovery. Thank you for all of your prayers.

Too long...

I know it's been a long time since I last posted. Every time I sit down to the computer nothing would come to mind. Then I started feeling hypocritical because I look everyday to see if the blogs I read have been updated without updating my own! The past few weeks have been pretty normal- sleep, eat, daycare, work, eat, sleep, etc. The girls are really growing and pretty much sprint to wherever they are going. They are really at a fun age!

Today they were promoted at daycare to the "1's class". I was a little nervous because they have been with the same teacher since they started 1 year ago. (I can't believe I've been back to work 1 year- at one point I had been on bedrest and maternity leave longer than I had worked!) When I picked the girls up, their new teacher, Miss Veronica, said they had a great day. They were only really fussing at nap time and plyed well with the other kids. I was very excited to hear they had a scheduled "nap time". They will also start to learn colors, shapes, numbers,etc and they are going to teach them Spanish! I was very happy to hear all of this- I really think the structure will be good.

On Friday the girls are having minor surgery to have tubes placed in each ear- that's 4 ears! Gracie is also going to have her adenoids removed to help with all the congestion and runny noses. We haven't heard when they go in- I'll keep y'all posted. We are really excited to get this done and hopefully it will help reduce the number of ear infections. They had their hearing checked at the doctor and both had a decrease because both ears were completely blocked with fluid. The audiologist said that everything they hear is like they are underwater. We also hope that with better hearing their speech will come along.

Other than the surgery we have a pretty normal week. Hope everyone has a great week-

Lindsey

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