Thursday, June 22nd

Jessica is home! She was discharged from the hospital this afternoon and is resting (or trying to) at home. She is tired and sore, but happy to be home. She is looking forward to daily visits to Claire who is doing ok. The doctors are concerned about her digestion (not uncommon to premies) and it appears that her intestines aren't developed enough to process milk, etc. so she is getting her nourishment intravenously. The tube out of her nose in the picture is draining her stomach and will be in for a week or so before the re-introduce "food". Her stomach x-rays today were better than yesterday and the doctor stopped to see us while we were there and he said that he was "encouraged" by what he saw today. He also said that hopefully she will be "boring" for the next week to ten days...in this case boring is very good (we'll take boring for the next two months!). We were told to expect ups and downs and that is where we are........