Getting in our hospital groove

Katy & Noemi sleeping

 Tonight will be our fifth straight night staying at the hospital.  Friday evening we moved from our nice room to the "Twilight Room," which is small and windowless.  It's actually been better than we had thought it would be.  Since Katy and Noemi have been discharged, we don't have doctors and nurses coming by every half hour or so and so we can actually sometimes string an hour or two of sleep together.

I (Mike) have left the hospital twice to get some things at home, check on the cats and chickens and also to get some supplies at the store

View from the window of our first hospital room

The Twilight Room

 We have had ups and downs the past few days.  Noemi is feeding better and better.   Zora is still losing weight at a level which is a bit worrisome to the doctors.  They put her on an NG (nasogastric tube) so they could feed her without her having to work to take the food in through her mouth. 

  On Friday, they put that in, but shortly thereafter, the doctor decided that it would be better for her to have to learn to suckle in order to get food, which meant that we would keep the NG tube in, but not use it unless we had to. 

Noemi  &   Zora

We started to get optimistic but then today she took in so little and lost still more weight that they decided to start her on the NG tube again at her 2:30 feeding.  Our 5:30 feeding went better, so even though we're trying to have the longer view of it all, we're getting optimistic again.

Off to nap before our 8:30 feeding.