Day 22 / Post Op Day 8

Oh please tell me we are getting close...

Today was a much better day in regards to Caleb's oxygen numbers. Thank goodness!! Doctor said he just wanted to keep me on my toes yesterday...this momma didn't find it funny. ;)

We had a very quiet afternoon, with one feeding around 3 pm. He still only drank half of his bottle for me, which is what the nurse told me he has been doing since last night - drinking 30 of the 60 mls. We are hopefully looking at bringing him home either tomorrow or Thursday. Certainly hoping it is Thursday at the latest. According to the resident pediatric doctor that I work with on the peds floor, the cardiologist is just checking in on him during their rounds in the morning. I guess they have no other 'orders' for Caleb. The surgeon needs to be happy with his incision issue in order for him to go home. It was not infected, but they are certainly still watching it closely and keeping clean bandages on it. So here's hoping tomorrow it looks perfect enough for him to go home...although I have a strong feeling it is going to be Thursday.

They have an MRI ordered for Caleb tomorrow to check out the "dimple" at the top of his back side. They did a sonogram on this area over a couple weeks ago and the results were inconclusive, so we are praying that the MRI tomorrow shows no deformity and that we are not looking at tethered cord syndrome on top of his other issues. We do not need any more! Please pray for him as they will have to sedate him in order to get the MRI done. Please pray that the MRI does not show any issues, as we could be looking at another surgery for him someday if it does show that he has a tethered spinal cord. So he could use prayers for the results as well as the procedure tomorrow. We are not crazy about them sedating him, but there is no other way to get the MRI done.

Thank you SO much for sharing this journey along with us! Here's hoping he truly can come home in the next couple days!!

Joanna