Im laying here on the couch doing kangaroo care with Micah, and I cant help but think about how much God has blessed us in the past two weeks. Tomorrow is the day I was scheduled to deliver via csection. I cant believe that the boys are already 11 days old. I also cant ignore the irony of the date. Instead of laying here anxious to meet my boys tomorrow, Im laying here anxious to find out test results. Reed has an esophagram tomorrow to identify if last weeks surgery healed properly. If it did, we will be able to remove his chest tube, and well be able to start weaning his TPN and feeding via his feeding tube. Woah!! Thank You, God!! This would be an amazing recovery. Although I dont believe its likely, Im praying they find no leaks tomorrow and that we can proceed with the feeding training. He also has some other various tests such as a kidney contrast test as well as an eye exam. Itll be a big day. Well get some pretty big news -- whether its good or bad. Please please please pray. Right now.... stop reading and say a prayer. All too often, people use phrases like praying for you or youre in my prayers, but they dont actually take the time to spend a moment in true conversation with God. It defeats the purpose of saying that if you dont actually do it. Even if you dont know what to say, please just spend a moment or two telling Him what you have on your plate with which you need help. (While youre chatting with him, please mention my baby. 💙) In addition to tomorrows tests, we will have an MRI (likely on Thursday). Reed had some funky waves in his EEG (brain scan), so they want to do an MRI to see if we can identify anything specifically wrong. We have been warned that he will likely be mentally handicapped to some degree. Among all the issues we have going on, thats pretty low on the list. We love him no matter what. On the brighter side, Micah was able to successfully nurse today for the first time!! Its been a long 11 days of working with him to latch properly and not get too tired. His energy level is lower than that of a full term baby, so he is easily tired out from just a few minutes of trying. Im choosing to focus on the small wins and the silver lining-however thin it may be. :-) As always, thank you for your support. These three boys are so lucky to have so many people who love them.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:38:00 +0000
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