The week has ended in a more positively-facing direction than in which it started.
Stanley's blood cultures came back from the lab nicely negative, so his anti-biotics have been stopped. His eye-gunk sample did contain some kind of bug, but the eye-drops took care of that anyway. He was still not 100% Stanley today, but very nearly there - he even managed his best breast-feed to date.
Willow had yet another blood transfusion on Thursday, her seventh so far. It should be her last, as her bone marrow is just about starting to create new blood now. She needed this one though, to boost her red blood cell count to improve her whole lung-breathing-living problems that she has. It seems to be doing the trick - by today she was more stable, with no major incidents. She'd been on CPAP constantly for a couple of days til this morning, to help give her lungs a bit of a rest after a rocky start to the week. She did have a good period of five hours on the prongs today, so let's hope she's starting to turn that corner.
I've got four days off work at the moment, which means I can concentrate purely on the family, and not have to worry about trivial matters which might be going on in the outside world. That's a lot more hours to spend in hospital, watching our babies growing all the time. Talking of growing, they are now out of 'Micro' sized nappies, and into the smallest 'New Baby' size. I'm sure neither of them will have any problems filling those up though.
The babies are twelve weeks old today, which means they are sixteen days away from receiving their '100 Day Cake' from the NICU nurses. We were hoping they'd never get that cake, and would have been home with us by Day 100 - but on the bright side, at least we won't have to worry about dinner that day.
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