I'm Back! :)

After spending 4 nights in the hospital, I got to come home :) Wed. I had an ultrasound at the MFM doc's at Valley and all is improving. Both babies are doing great and have plenty of amniotic fluid. They found a pocket of fluid between the outer amniotic sack and the inner chorionic sack that tracks up around the placeta a bit. The water I lost, and am still losing, is making its' way out little by little. It also looks like the blood clot I have is starting to resolve itself. In case you didn't read my previous entry, the pocket can form near the surgery site with some leakage that is trapped as the hole seals. This is both good and bad. It's very good since it means my water didn't break, but it is still a concern because it means part of the membrane wall has come loose from the inside of the uterus.

Good news first :) Since the hole where the leak was coming from was machine produced, it will heal better and faster. The hole is also very high up the side of the uterus so natural bacteria cannot enter as easily through the cervix and cause an infection. I am still on antibiotics as a precaution and have to watch my temp. and other signs of infection. If an infection occurs, it could endanger both me and the babies....we'll pray for that not to happen :) And, we were told the TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrome) is pretty much over with, thanks to Dr. Chmait! :)

Bad news...I'm still on bed rest. Oh well, this IS a very small price to pay to keep these kiddos, so I will try not to complain! And, hey, I DID get an awesome new couch out of the deal :) Thanks honey :) We had an appt. at Evergreen MFM today...Dr. Walker, who is the fetal surgeon that was in Nepal at the time I needed surgery, told me to take it easy and to keep the uterus as still as possible. This will help prevent the membrane not to tear away from the wall any further, which could cause my water to actually break and other not so good things we won't think about. He told me I was not allowed to have any more complications because I have pretty much had them all already! UGh...at least this is very minor compared to the babies having TTTS. At this point we are going on a day to day basis. If I am still leaking some fluid from the pocket by 24 weeks, I will have to move into the hospital and have the babies at 32 weeks. Ok, this may sound bad, but it is the original news we received when we found out there were two of these little parasites :) So, we will just have to fall back on our original plans and hope for the best possible outcome! So far, the hundreds of prayers offered in our behalf have definitely not been in vain! Thanks :)

Next Wed. my appt. at Evergreen MFM will be another long ultrasound and echo cardiograms on the babies' hearts. I got a DVD recording today of the ultrasound so will get it updated every week I am there. It is about 20 minutes long so it won't download...oh well, I will just have to post printed pics again...I'll hopefully not be updating this story until next week with more good news! Oh, and due to recent events, we have decided to name the babies Trauma and Drama, ha ha ha :)