Neither Surgeon Nor Snow Could Keep Us From Home

The driving conditions were treacherous, but we braved the ice and the snow so that we could be home by late afternoon!

Mason is doing well overall with his feedings (now up to his full 36 mL per hour without too much trouble) and his breathing (sleeping and needing only 0.75 liters of oxygen). With smiles all around, we decided that we needed to go home today and the surgeons, with a little coaxing, agreed.

The surgeons were worried once again that Mason was becoming dehydrated since he wasn't peeing enough. After compromising with them - they wanted to start IV fluids, we didn't - to increase his milk intake, they felt that he was stable enough. We then asked if we could go home today. We know it will be tough to manage feeding him through a syringe every hour around the clock, but it's got to be better than staying in the hospital as more and more sick kids come through with colds and flus.

So, here we are back at home, hopefully for more than a month this time. Mason seems to enjoy being able to be moved around some and being held more often than was possible at the hospital. We do have to watch his grabby hands a little more now that he's got another tube within reach, but we're learning. Just another step in Mason's road to recovery.

Thank you every one for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. We feel so blessed and so lucky to have made it through this surgery and off of the ventilator without too many complications. I'm off to unpack my month's worth of clothes that I brought to the hospital just in case.....