Brighter news first: Ellis Wren is doing great. He's fighting the good fight against CPAP, literally wrestling with it whenever he doesn't want it. To think back to 4 weeks ago, the kid is hardly recognizable. Cuter than ever, his arms moving in broad strokes, fingers grasping our fingers with incredible strength and eyes fixed on ours whenever we hold him. Gaining weight as well: close to 9 pounds! He is a dashing newborn.
Not as bright news: Joan was admitted to Columbia Presbyterian very early Saturday morning to treat an infection that developed midway between her C-Section incision and her belly button. She was put on a regiment of antibiotics, which did much to localize the infection. That notwithstanding, physicians yesterday deemed it necessary to perform surgery both to clean out the infected area and see how far down it went, which was unclear in their initial scans. It was a relatively short surgery, and Joan is recovering now. The hope is that we have curtailed the infection, but it will require Joan stay at least a week in the hospital to be certain.
A lengthier entry on all this may happen later today, but that's the update for the moment.
Ellis and Nana Ali
