Lil' Stevie Wonder 11/05/09

By BK -
So things are progressing. His swelling is starting to go down, but his eyes are still swollen shut. Dr. Fearon came in this morning and thinks we could get out of the hospital tonight. He's coming back after his afternoon surgery to check in and we'll go from there. He even said if we get out of the hospital tonight we could get back on the road tomorrow morning.

Isaiah's much more active after a pretty uneventful night. We brought along a little tikes keyboard my cousin angie bought him last time we were here and he's been blindly playing it in the crib. Even though we couldn't see the little sparkle in his eyes, you could tell it perked him up and made him happy. He's been pretty chill for the most part. He hasn't thrown a huge fuss yet, but he has had his crabby moments, mostly when you try to move him.

His breathing has been great the whole time and the respiratory therapists haven't heard a wheeze since the night of the surgery. He hasn't desat'ed yet to our knowledge, with the only alarm I can remember being because he decided to pull off 2 leads and his pulse ox sensor off. I am constantly amazed at his progress and toleration for everything and we're just blessed to have such a resilient little guy.

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Lena said…
We can't wait to welcome you all back home!
Lena
November 5, 2009 at 6:11 PM
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