On a Roll!

Landon is keeping up pace with eating and doing great! We're basically offering him food whenever he's acting hungry- hopefully one day we'll be able to establish a little more of a "schedule" (for mommy and daddy's sanity!) but for now we're happy to let him eat as much as he wants!

As of today they are projecting a discharge date of Monday. I had hoped they might send us home over the weekend but they said they don't like to do that with babies who have a serious heart condition since there is limited support over the weekend if we call them with an issue. And if we had something come up we'd end up having to bring him back in for that reason. So Monday it is- hopefully this discharge date sticks! We've done as much as we can so far in terms of our "duties" in getting him discharged- patient education and all that stuff. Pretty soon we'll be making appointments with the pediatrician and cardiologist in the springs and get some times set up with the home health people that will be coming by for assessments (so he won't get totally out of being poked and prodded).

They pulled him off his IV fluids since he's eating enough now to maintain good hydration (yay!). His weight was actually down this morning from yesterday but they also increased one of his meds that is a diuretic (pulls off excess fluid in his body) so that and taking off the IV fluids could play a part in that. Hopefully he'll prove himself weight-wise of the weekend. The other great news is that he's looking like he'll be able to go home without an NG tube! I am SO excited at this possibility and I'd be happy to call the company that dropped off the rental for that and tell them to come back and get it!

Thanks for your continued prayers. We had no idea we'd be in the hospital for 4 weeks when all of this started but I'm starting to see an end in sight, and it involves finally being able to put him in cute baby clothes at home!