Part 3- The day after the twins were born

The day after the twins were born is kind of a blur to me.  I was still on pain medication from my surgery and I had little to no sleep the night before.  I went down to the NICU to see the boys that morning and then went back up to my room to rest for a little bit.  Tom had gone home for a little while to shower and get a change of clothes.  Since this all happened so suddenly and early, we did not have a hospital bag packed yet and we had nothing but my purse with us.  While he was gone, one of the neonatal nurse practitioners came up to my room and told me that they needed to transfer Lucas to LeBonheur for emergency surgery.  They had done some x-rays on him and he had so much air in his body that they could hardly see his organs.  The reason he had so much air in his body was because he had a hole in his intestines and this needed to be repaired asap.

I don't know if I've ever been so scared in my life.  My little boy was less than 24 hours old and 11 weeks premature and he was about to have surgery.  We already knew that Luke was a fighter (more on that in a different post, but all throughout my pregnancy we were told he had a lot of complications), but I was so worried.

Lucas was transferred to LeBonheur in an ambulance by a team called Pedi-Flite.  These guys were awesome.  While they got him stable and ready to move to the ambulance, one of the girls sat with me on the couch and hugged me while I cried.  She asked for my cell phone number and promised me she would call me as soon as they got him to LeBonheur.  I was not yet released from the hospital following my c-section, so I couldn't go with them.  They let Tom ride in the ambulance with them to LeBonheur though.  As soon as they arrived there and got Luke stable, that sweet girl did as she promised and called me to let me know that he was ok.  The Pedi-Flite team also bought Luke a t-shirt.

That night Lucas had surgery to repair the hole in his intestines and he did great.  He is still recovering, but our little guy is tough.  He will stay in the NICU at LeBonheur and soon Miller will be transferred there to be with his brother.