by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 26, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
Christmas Eve was hard. It started with waking from a glorious sleep, a good breakfast of real food, and a morning visit to the kids with Mom, who gave Josiah a night off from hospital sleep with me to rest in his own bed at home. It was great to have a night without...
by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 24, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
Thank you to everyone who showered us with prayer, encouragement, and service as last night’s heart test turned into this morning’s emergency c-section. It’s been a long day. Jayce and Justine were born at 9:30 am. I am not a fan of pregnancy nor birth, but I have to...
by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 23, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
Midnight: Our midnight heart test went as poorly as the AM one. By 2 am, we were still testing with no end in sight. We’ve been visited by four different nurses in an attempt to get monitors correctly tracking separate kids. Ultimately, a resident doctor brought...
by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 22, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
AM: We’re having trouble passing our morning heart test. Kids moved. I moved. Heartbeats are too similar to differentiate. Most troubling, Jayce’s heart has dipped too low several times. Doc said they are watching closely and are not prepared to take...
by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 22, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
Friday AM: Today’s main event was a Doppler test. This looks at blood flow, volume, rate, etc. for Jayce and his support system. The test showed no improvement since Wednesday, the day we had our first Doppler test at the specialist’s office. The results...