More Professional Pictures

These pictures were also taken by Chrissie. Since she was a hospital employee, she was able to come back to the NICU and take these pictures. They were taken before the ones in the previous post, but oh well!

Here is Brandt
Here is Carter.

Eric holding Carter.

Here is Brandt in his NICU bed will all his teddy bears.

Chrissie posed both boys in one of their NICU beds. I love these!

Baby feet!

Professional Pictures

While we were in the hospital, we made friends with a lady who knew my uncle, who works in the ER. This lady, Chrissie, turned out to be such a great friend while I was in the hospital for the deliveries and while I was in being sick. Chrissie does professional photography and offered to take pictures for us as a gift. We were so thrilled. Below are some of the pictures we love.

Pics from Day 2 of the boys' arrival

Here are a few pictures from Day 2.

This is the first picture where you can kind of see Carter's dimples. It looks like he's going to have Eric's dimples on both cheeks. I love them!.

Here I am changing Brandt for the first time. They were both still in the NICU and had to be in separate heated beds. They were hooked up to monitor their oxygen and body temperature.

Here's a close up of Brandt. Look at that chin! We think he has my head shape.

Here's Carter getting one of his first bottles. We had to teach them how to eat because they didn't have the suck/breathe/swallow reflex yet.

Pics from Day 1 of the boys' arrival

These pictures were taken on 5/26, the day of the birth. What a wonderful day! I was only able to see the babies right when they were born. I saw them later the next day and got to hold them.

Here is Carter when he was pulled out.

Here is Brandt when he was pulled out.

Here's our first partial family picture of me, Eric and Carter. Brandt was being cleaned up.

Here's we all are! I'm kissing Brandt and Eric is holding Carter.

Here's Carter being cleaned up.

Here's Brandt getting cleaned up.

I'm home!!

What a week. That is the least I can say! From being septic and hours away from being VERY sick to getting a bone marrow biopsy and finding out there was a sign up sheet going around the hospital for people to donate bone marrow for me, I am home!

The Lord has worked in mysterious ways this week. Nothing about my conditions made sense to the doctors. n the end, my bone marrow decided to come back from vacation and started to make white blood cells. I'm still not 100% and have low blood volume, but I'm home with my babies!

The boys have changed so much during the last week. They are so big now! I'm so grateful for my wonderful family who has pulled together to make sure that everything and everyone is taken care of. My wonderful mother-in-law has taken care of the boys like they are her own. My wonderful mom has cooked for everyone and taken care of me, and my wonderful husband has been right in the middle of everything coordinating it all.

Thank you so much everyone who has prayed for my recovery! My OB/GYN told me yesterday how much it was Divine intervention as nothing about my condition made sense. The Lord was surely looking out for me the last 9 days!

I'm HOME!!

Update

Well, it looks like I got a pretty good birthday present today!

Over last few days, I've shown no improvement. My white blood cells have stayed about the same and my red blood cells and platelets have gone down. Because my wbc haven't changed, a bone marrow biopsy was performed yesterday. It was the most painful thing I have ever gone through!

But guess what?!! Everything they tested for came back negative! There was a good number of stem cells and no cancer!!! Halleluia!

This was the best news I could've hoped for! It means there is nothing wrong with my marrow and that it's being suppressed by something not related to my bone function (so most likely a virus).

Also, my morning vital check showed my temp was 99. It has not changed and has consistently been 99 all day! Yay! That's not a fever!

Although my wbc have not gone up, my red blood cells have increased from 44 to 58. They should be in the hundreds, but the doctors think that since my fever has decreased and my rbs look to be increasing, my wbc should be the next to increase.

Please continue to pray that I improve. I've made baby steps today am THRILLED the biopsy was normal.

Please pray for me...

Please pray for me. Yesterday, I woke up with fever chills and a high fever and abdominal pain. Eric took me to my ob since I had an appointment @ 9 anyway and we just thought that I had an infection. I saw the PA who treated me like I was a weepy mom who was over reacting over the post-op pain. She didn't even do a pelvic exam on me and thought her thermometer was wrong when it read 103.5. She wrote me a script for more percacet and an antibiotic and was going to send me on my way. (Read: dumbass!!). I kept asking her if that was all. She consulted the other drs who finally got there and they said to go straight to the ER.

To make a long story short since I'm typing this from my phone, I was hours away from going into septic shock and dying. There is still not a confirmed diagnosis. They don't know if I had a uterine infection or what. I've been put on the heaviest antibiotics there are that are bacteria resistant.

I'm feeling fine now except I still have a fever. My abdominal pain is less sever and I'm not even on any pain relievers.

The concerning part is that my white blood cells are very low. Normal is 4,500 and I have 1,000. This means that my body is having a very hard time fighting the infection. My wbc count has not increased and my platelets and hematocrit have decreased slighly. I'm going to get a shot to boost my wbc so I hope that helps.

If you wouldn't mind, please pray that I start to improve. I'm so scared and I just want to be home and see my babies that I've just begun to get to know.