Exciting News!!

So tonight at the hospital, the doctor came by and told me I needed to find a pediatrician, and that I needed to put Tucker's room together because it won't be too much longer until he was home!! She said next week we'll wean him to 2 liters of flow, and if he tolerates that he'll be weaned to 1 liter, and as soon as he's been stable on 1 liter for one to two weeks he'll be able to come home!! We're so close...I was so excited to hear that, his nurses have thought he might be coming home soon, but we haven't had a doctor tell us that!!!! Thank you to everyone who has been thinking of us and praying for us....I was so happy to hear it I started crying...I just didn't know when I'd finally hear those words! I will be posting more when I know more, but so far he's doing great!!! We're super excited, hopefully he'll be our present under our Christmas tree!!!

Tucker's Surgery

Tucker had his surgery today, he went in around 1:30 and was in for about three hours. He was able to be extubated (off the ventilator) right after his surgery which is HUGE. We're so proud of him!!! He's done so well everyone couldn't be more pleasantly surprised. He's on lower oxygen than he was before the surgery which is great, so hopefully this is the change in the right direction that we needed. He's such an amazing boy!!! We'll see how he's doing tomorrow...but so far he's good, besides being incredibly mad about not being able to eat!!! I will keep you all updated on how he's doing!!

Tucker

Thought I'd write a quick note. Just so everyone knows...Tucker is now 6 months old, (as of yesterday) and 13 pounds. Yeah, he's huge! He's going to have surgery next week to give him a G-Tube, and fix his hernia. I don't think he'll be able to get his MRI the same day, but we can always do it later, it's not as important as his surgery. We're hoping once they do this surgery things will get better and we'll be able to get him home soon. I do have to say that I'm nervous about the surgery, they will have to sedate him and put him on a ventilator, and we're praying he'll be able to come off of it the same day. This is the biggest risk with doing this surgery, how long he'll have to stay on the ventilator. It's been a long 6 months, and I'm just praying we can get him home before Christmas, I can handle a lot, but I just don't think I can handle having him in the NICU at Christmastime. Thank you again to everyone who has been praying for us and thinking about us. Hopefully we'll be able to post pictures of him at home soon!!