I am sitting here catching up on some shows as little Case sleeps and Colt plays with his cars and trucks. Grey's Anatomy is on, one of my favorites by the way, a 15 year old has a baby, baby is extremely sick (with what I really don't know I was up doing things during that time). I know the baby does have some heart problems. The point of the story is mom leaves the baby. She says "There is something wrong with him." Can you imagine? Can you imagine saying that? Can you imagine walking away? I have told Bruce over and over that I am so glad this happened with our 4th child and not the one we had when we were 20. I don't think I could have handled it at that age. Don't get me wrong, I would never have walked away it would have just been even harder than it is now. In the NICU we saw so many teen parents and it breaks my heart because they just aren't ready to deal with that kind of stress.
Thanksgiving was truly a day of giving for our family. Although it was very hard to be split from some of our family because we can't travel and Case can not be around anyone who may be sick we were still joined by my mom and my brother. We had a small feast (as Kade calls it) and mom and I enjoyed much shopping (AH retail therapy)! Case slept through his first Thanksgiving meal!
Case is doing well and continues to gain weight, now weighing 9 lbs 3 oz. He had one week of slight weight loss because of a cold but he has definately recovered from that. Our weekly visits to our cardiologist are going well and cardiac wise everything is looking good. We do the cath lab on Jan. 9th, Dr. Khan is going to go in and make sure everything inside his heart is ready for surgery and Jan 10 is the big day. I am very very nervous about surgery but I know it is what we have to do. It is so hard to imagine this little guy in so much pain.
As for the rest of us our biggest baby has his first dance tonight! I am very sad and not ready for him to grow up. Bruce has been having some pain in his stomach and did a bunch of lab work yesterday and hopefully will get to see a dr today. We are fearing it may be gallbladder issues. So please throw a little prayer his way!
