Next step

Lucas continues to show no symptoms of being sick or in pain. Actually, both boys are doing great. They are the cutest things in the world. Chris and I could just watch them for hours. They make us laugh constantly. Sebastian actually peed on his face this morning. That was pretty hilarious!

So they started Lucas on a medicine called phenobarbitol. He’ll be on this for 5 days before going in for a HIDA scan on Wednesday. According to the nurse practioner often just being on the phenobarbitol is enough to clear things up and lower his bilirubin. Let’s hope this is the case for Lucas cause that would be the best case scenario. Aside from that the GI consult gave us a list of 11 diagnosis related to elevated liver enzymes and hightened bilirubin to prepare us for what could be. So I guess we’ll be kicking around the hospital until atleast Wednesday.

This place has seriously become ‘our’ (maybe I shouldn’t speak for Chris, maybe just ‘my’) home. The nurses our family. They constantly ask us how the boys are doing and when we’ll be getting to go home. They stop in at bedside to see how they are doing and those who haven’t seen them since the first couple of weeks are always so impressed at how big they have gotten.We roam the halls at 3am in our pajamas as we relieve Sebastian from his gas or ease Lucas to deep sleep. I will miss it here and hopefully drop by someday when the boys are big to say hello to all those people who took care of them and helped become healthy baby boys! Can you tell I’m ready to say sayonara to the NICU?