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Matt and Jen from Jamaica Plain were back through town after having seen Cambodia and spent some island time down in Koh Phangan. They are flying out in the morning back to Beantown. So, we went and had dinner with them and visited Arrowen on the way home tonight.
It was about 10:40 when we got there and she was wide awake, which was great as we were able to get her out and hold her for a while. We exchanged a few soul taps (AKA fist bumps) as it seems most of her free arm time comes about when we have her and unwrap the mummy ever so slightly. We left when it was time to go back in the incubator to get ready for her midnight snack.
So, we got a few wide awake shots. Her left eye is looking a little weepy. It was like that at first, but then it had cleared up before the operation. Overall, the operation definitely set her back a few days from where she was at before it. A lot of that I would put down to going from 35ml per feeding through the oral tube down to nothing and and IV and then slowly raising the feeding level again through the gastric tube and lowering the IV dosage. She is at 25ml per feeding now, and a ml/hour on the IV, and she was definitely starting to act hungry a good hour before she was to be fed.
All seems go for us to take her home on Friday (not as soon as we had hoped.)
Couple notes on the pix: the yellowy tube-looking thing is the end of her feeding tube and her eyes really are not the color they appear in all these pictures. Her irises are not black as they seem and no, she doesn't have incredibly dilated pupils. The actual color of her irises is a rather deep slate blue. Quite lovely actually, but really hard to describe as 'deep slate blue' doesn't really capture the color. Also, I have yet to see them in anything approaching natural lighting, perhaps they are an entirely different color in real light.