47 Pieces To Love: Day 11

......Still here. AUGH! That's all I can say. It's Friday night, and that means that spring break is over, and I should have to return to school on Monday. Spring Break? Really? I didn't get one of those. I had been looking forward to the week of spending time with my kids and doing some fun things with Natalie. Instead, Natalie spent the week being shuffled between grandma/grandpas, her dad's and her house. At least she's a good sport about it and she kinda went with the flow!

Colin continues to improve each day. A feeding tube was put in Wednesday - Colin just wouldn't eat! Once he got a few good feedings, he really started to perk up. I started to see signs of my sweet baby yesterday afternoon! And for the first time, I saw two Colin smiles! It brought tears to my eyes - I was so worried he would never smile again. Yes, I know that was totally irrational, but I've been stuck in a hospital room for the last 11 days so I'm allowed to be slightly irrational!

Today he started to take a few ounces by mouth at each feeding, and then whatever he doesn't eat goes into his feeding tube. Yesterday we shut his oxygen off for awhile. He was sitting at .1 litres - hardly anything, but he really just needed that tiny bit of "juice." He was off from about 4pm until around 8:30. Then he started to struggle breathing again so I turned it back up. Today he's been on oxygen the whole day, but they moved his breathing treatments to every 6 hours to see how he would handle that. He did great! No problems! Tomorrow we'll take him off the oxygen again and see how he does!

On Tuesday, the senior resident promised me that we would be home by Cubs Opening Day (which is today!). Well, that didn't happen. As the doctor told me this morning, "I didn't say which year!" So not fair. As it turns out, we'll be here through the weekend. He said that we would all feel comfortable making sure that Colin won't have any troubles when we get home. As much as I hate to agree, I do agree. I do want to go home, but I know I would just be hovering over Colin making sure that he's breathing ok.

So, until then, we will continue to work on the oxygen and getting him stronger! We've seen smiles here and there today, and it's wonderful! The sparkle is back in Colin's eyes and he's been awake much more then he has over the last two weeks. I feel that we're getting close to being back home.

When is my spring break???? :-)

And of course, I have to put a few recent pictures of my getting-to-be-healthy again boy!

Natalie came and spent the day with us at the hospital on Wednesday. We had a really good day! Colin was still sleeping a lot so Natalie and I played a lot of games. Lots of cards, a few rounds of "trouble" and had a good mommy/daughter day - even if it was in the hospital. You could tell that Colin was really excited to see his sissy!!