Lyra Judith was born at 2:21 am on Sunday morning (2/15/04), missing Valentine's day by just a couple of hours.
She's a sick little girl though and it's it's a very surreal good/bad feeling visiting her in the pediatric ICU. It's wonderful to see her and touch her, but you're also jumpy all the time at all the various alarms that are going off and then sometimes you'll get a little too much detail about what they've had to do to keep her stabilized, making the reality of her condition really hit home. But for the most part we've had really good visits with her. She's got a lot of things hooked up to her right now. They've got her intubated and sedated so that they can carefully regulate her breathing. When she starts to wake up, she breathes too fast on her own, which causes her lungs to deprive the rest of her body of blood. But she's also got a lot of stuffed animals in her bed and they've put a little bow in her hair (she's got a fair amount of dark hair), and she looks beautiful in spite of all her tubes and sensors.
We did find out that the surgery will be first on the schedule tomorrow morning (2/17), so that was good (before we had heard maybe Tuesday, but more likely Wednesday(2/18)). The surgery takes about 4 hours and they're going to keep us updated throughout the process.
Posted by Tim at February 16, 2004 05:13 PM