Turkey Tidbits

First and foremost, we want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

While Braelyn and Gwendolyn couldn't celebrate together, you can see they still enjoyed their first Turkey Day. Actually, it looks from Gwen's photo below like she had a little too much turkey because she's knocked out but as you can see above, Braelyn was pretty wide-eyed today.

In her defense, Gwen does have a good excuse to be so tired. Last night, she was transferred from the nursery "floor" to the same wing of the hospital that we were first admitted to almost a month ago. However, we're still technically under the NICU's care so we have the same nurse staff we've had since Gwen's surgery. The benefit of that is having only a pair of babies per nurse as opposed to four or five. The other plus is having a crew we're familiar with that also knows her circumstances the best. We've been told that Gwen's nearly done with her jaw extraction. The folks from plastic surgery estimate that her left side will be complete by tomorrow and her right side screws should be done by the end of the weekend. At this point, the plan is to try and do the swallow study Monday... fingers crossed that still plays out so we can hopefully begin the process of wrapping things up soon.

Unfortunately, we had to postpone our family Thanksgiving meal. One of our nieces has a bad fever and so we decided to wait until Saturday to do our official Turkey Day celebration. We figured the fever would crest by then and there's no need to have any other babies in the hospital so that way we wouldn't have to worry about Braelyn catching a bug!

Other than that, there isn't much new with the Castellanos.

I suppose I should sign off for now so we'll talk to you soon.