2 months old!!

Wow I can't believe that Gavin is 2 months today. I just hate that he has to spend it in the hospital. Gavin is doing a ton better. He was extubated yesterday and seems to be tolerating it quite well. He is on high flow oxygen and they are planning to slowly ween him down a bit. I guess they would like him to be around 4 liters to go to the 4th floor which is the infant floor for the rest of his recovery. We have no idea how long he will have to be there but we are hoping for no longer than a week. My birthday is on Sunday and that would be the best birthday gift EVER!! We have been able to hold him for a bit here and there. My arms have ached to hold him so when I was able to yesterday it was AMAZING and very EMOTIONAL. I held him right after they took the tube out so he was extremely ticked off. I think he needed his mama to hold him too cause he calmed right down. We have had to move rooms twice because more serious traumas have come in and they said thats a good sign. So right now we are just waiting. We think that if he does not make it upstairs today for sure by tomorrow. I'll post some pics of the whole extubating process. Thank you to all for the prayers, for my family for helping with the girls and to our Mom's for taking the girls over night for the past week. We don't know what we would do without them.

Update

I wanted to post a quick update on Gavin. He is doing better, They have been weening him down off the ventilator slowly. He is just a few more steps from having the tube removed, were hoping by Sunday. He has not had any scary episodes lately, thanks goodness. He is still on some sedation meds and pain meds. He seems so far to be tolerating all the changes as of this morning. They did another chest x-ray this morning as well and they are still not happy with the results, they are expecting bigger changes because he is looking a ton better. He still has alot of secretions and gunk on his right upper lobe. He is trying to be more alert. I posted a ton of pictures yesterday to show the progress that has happened so far. We wanted to thank everyone who has keeped our little guy in their prayers, they have truly helped. He is showing great improvements in the right direction. Keep praying for us and I will update as soon as things change. Love you all.

Pics of Gavin

And with Mommy.

With Daddy tonight.

Looking around, thinking where am I.

Here he is today, trying to open his eyes and see his Mama.

Look at how much puffier his face is. Poor thing was pumped full of a ton of fluids.

Down at Primary's later that day.

And with in hour. Here he is being put on Life flight.

Here he is on Sunday.

Here he is at Davis on Saturday.

Quick vid and update

Just wanted to try and post a quick video on how our little dude is doin. He's still having a little trouble draining his one lung out so the nurses decided to prop him up to help it along. So he's just kickin back in his boppy. As you can see in the video he's a little more awake than he has been in the last few days which makes us happy, and he's draining quite a bit. I'm so happy to see the little guy fighting so hard and winning. I'm sorry it is a little dark but they had the lights off and I was trying not to blind him so I was trying to cover the light on the camera.

Gavin's update as of right now.

Well what a day. It at first seemed that nothing had changed from last night to today. The doctors had told us that they were going to change his pain meds to Morphine so they wouldn't have to dose him every few minutes. So at about 11 I decided to go home-(this is Chris by-the-way)- to get some things like clean clothes and stuff. Well as I was getting ready to come back up Rach called me and told me that they had to do chest compressions on him. Apperantly when they gave him his new meds he clamped up and wasn't getting any air. Not cool... So I hit about mach 9 to get back to the hospital. I can't tell you how slow people can be when you REALY need to get somewhere in a hurry. I also can't tell you how many people I gave the bird to on the way to Primary's. When I finally got here they had to do chest compressions and Rach was/is a mess. As of right now they have him more cumfortable and he is doing just fine. His infection from what the doctors is telling us is accutally getting better. He's just going to be a little more "high maintenance" as one doctor put it. Here are a few pictures I just took of the poor little guy. Keep us in your prayers they are appreciated..

Gavin's down at Primary Childrens.

Gavin is in the hospital at Primary's. He was admitted yesterday to Davis hospital with respiratory distress. He was not responding to the oxygen they put him on. Once we got to the hospital they did a chest x-ray and found that he had pneumonia, so they started treating him for that. In the mean time he will still not responding well to the oxygen so they decided to up it and that seemed to help through the night. In the morning(so today), he was doing OK but by 11am he quickly started showing more signs that something else was wrong. They came to draw blood and suction twice and this time he just laid there not responding or crying like he had done before. So they decided to check his 02 levels in his body and they were through the roof, immediately they knew he needed to be at Primary's. He was not breathing enough to get out the o2 that had been going in to him. So he was totally lethargic and just laid there. They said it was kind of like carbon monoxide poisoning. He was sedated and intubated and life flighted down to the hospital. He is coming off his sedation slowly and he o2 levels are slowly going back to where they need to be. He will have to be here for at least a few days. Please keep Gavin in your prayers.

Meeting my Sisters!!!

Here we go. We are ready to go home. Waiting in his car seat for the nurses to bring us his discharge papers. He weighed 6lbs 2 oz when we took him home. We had to sleep over in the hospital to learn the monitors and we sleep on the smallest bed, well it felt small when we sleep on a king. My legs were hanging off so you could imagine how far off Chris were. We love having home and here are a few pictures of the girls seeing him "for real" for the first time.

Sleeping on Daddy.

Olivia would get so close but would not actually kiss him. It was quite funny to see her reaction.

Madalyn could not get enough of him and still can't. She just held him and held him. She wants to hold him through everything. Sleeping, feeding, pooping, whenever she can. She is a good"Mommy" and loves to help me.