week one
Here is a wrapup of the first week.
Maybe some of you got all of this already in pieces, but I am trying to make it an organized thing and send it to a BCC mailing list. I hope it makes sense.
Wednesday 1 PM
The twins were born on Wednesday
Baby-A at 7 lbs 12
Baby-B at 6 lbs 12
Mother and babies were doing fine then...
we found out that Baby-B will need surgery to repair the esophagus.It seems that the food pipe does not connect below the throat and that the food pipe above the stomach is connected to the windpipe.
The surgery consists of moving the stomach pipe off the windpipe and closing that hole in the side of the windpipe and then connecting the stomach pipe to the throat pipe. If all goes well, it might be accomplished via laproscopic surgery.
That night the cardiologist said that the heart was very good and that everything else looked very encouraging. We will know more later today. We have heard that "of all the serious defects to berepaired, this one is a good one to have".
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Thursday:
Today the surgery (4 hours) was a success; all done thorascoptically (laproscopic is the abdominal cavity, thorax is chest, but you knew that)
The surgeon said that he had been done the procedurethe old way by opening the ribs several times and he had been waiting for such a case for years. He gave us some pictures that were very impressive.
He was grinning from ear to ear.
amazing.
I'm sure that your prayers and the good hands guy worked well together.
She (Baby-B) will probably stay in the hospital for another three weeks, maybe four.The mother and Baby-A go home in the morning
maybe they will have names soon?
Buttermilk and Trigger?
more later
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Friday:
Baby-B now has a name: Colette Ondine Gravois
Google give several Colette's. Here is a Frenchauthor:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Colette/
such wisdom for such a young thing?
Colette will stay in the hospital for a few weeks but her sister is going home today.
Zoe Marie Gravois Zoë Marie Gravois
I guess I will figure out how to write an umlaut in plain text soon enough
http://www.tomveatch.com/zoe-umlaut.html
10:00 PM
We heard that Paulette's sister, Elaine had written apaper on this at St Louis University when she got her nursing degree about 50 years ago and that she knew of another case in Grand Rapids. Small world.
Here is Adam's real address:
Adam and Heather Gravois
5109 Avenue F
Austin, Tx 78751
adam_gravois@hotmail.com
Saturday: May 20
Today, Saturday May 20, I went to see Colette at 9 AM to talk about things in her future and to hold her hand. The nurse said that she could see a family resemblence, but I told Colette she will get overthat. Then we went to Adam's to do things.
Sunday: May 21 7:00 AM
I will go see Colette in a little while and then we will start to figure out how to schedule our housekeeping visits to Adam and Heather's house sothat we are not all there at the same time.
Maybe some of you got all of this already in pieces, but I am trying to make it an organized thing and send it to a BCC mailing list. I hope it makes sense.
Wednesday 1 PM
The twins were born on Wednesday
Baby-A at 7 lbs 12
Baby-B at 6 lbs 12
Mother and babies were doing fine then...
we found out that Baby-B will need surgery to repair the esophagus.It seems that the food pipe does not connect below the throat and that the food pipe above the stomach is connected to the windpipe.
The surgery consists of moving the stomach pipe off the windpipe and closing that hole in the side of the windpipe and then connecting the stomach pipe to the throat pipe. If all goes well, it might be accomplished via laproscopic surgery.
That night the cardiologist said that the heart was very good and that everything else looked very encouraging. We will know more later today. We have heard that "of all the serious defects to berepaired, this one is a good one to have".
======================
Thursday:
Today the surgery (4 hours) was a success; all done thorascoptically (laproscopic is the abdominal cavity, thorax is chest, but you knew that)
The surgeon said that he had been done the procedurethe old way by opening the ribs several times and he had been waiting for such a case for years. He gave us some pictures that were very impressive.
He was grinning from ear to ear.
amazing.
I'm sure that your prayers and the good hands guy worked well together.
She (Baby-B) will probably stay in the hospital for another three weeks, maybe four.The mother and Baby-A go home in the morning
maybe they will have names soon?
Buttermilk and Trigger?
more later
===================================
Friday:
Baby-B now has a name: Colette Ondine Gravois
Google give several Colette's. Here is a Frenchauthor:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Colette/
such wisdom for such a young thing?
Colette will stay in the hospital for a few weeks but her sister is going home today.
Zoe Marie Gravois Zoë Marie Gravois
I guess I will figure out how to write an umlaut in plain text soon enough
http://www.tomveatch.com/zoe-umlaut.html
10:00 PM
We heard that Paulette's sister, Elaine had written apaper on this at St Louis University when she got her nursing degree about 50 years ago and that she knew of another case in Grand Rapids. Small world.
Here is Adam's real address:
Adam and Heather Gravois
5109 Avenue F
Austin, Tx 78751
adam_gravois@hotmail.com
Saturday: May 20
Today, Saturday May 20, I went to see Colette at 9 AM to talk about things in her future and to hold her hand. The nurse said that she could see a family resemblence, but I told Colette she will get overthat. Then we went to Adam's to do things.
Sunday: May 21 7:00 AM
I will go see Colette in a little while and then we will start to figure out how to schedule our housekeeping visits to Adam and Heather's house sothat we are not all there at the same time.
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