Brandon is doing well

Brandon certainly isn’t completely well but he is making good progress in a lot of ways. Starting Wed night he began peeing, a lot. This is really good because he has so much fluid that he needs to get rid of. His girth has gone down. His ventilator settings have improved. The blood clot has gotten smaller (they had hoped just to keep it from growing). He had another small bowl movement. All of the other tests that they give him have also begun to improve. He was awake and happy a lot more yesterday. The nurse told us how he played with his disco ball for a while yesterday.

I haven’t taken many pictures of Brandon because he has looked so sick. He looks a little better now but the effects are still visibly apparent.

He looks better but as you can see. He still has a long way to go. It does appear that he has finally turned the corner and it is just a matter of time before he recovers from this infection and all of it’s effects.

Katelyn is doing well. However she did decide that she wanted to eat every 2.5 hours last night instead of her previous schedule of every 3-3.5 hours.
We took the boys to see Brandon last night. Derek wanted to wear one of his Bateman costumes to the hospital. Derek has acquired several costumes lately and he loves to dress up as Batman. The costume had the effect he was looking for and he got attention from everyone. He must have had 20-30 people talk to him about being Batman on the way in the hospital. It was pretty cute and Derek was really proud. He was sure that they didn’t know it was him under the costume and that everyone thought he was the real Batman.