Even better

Things continue to improve with Brandon. I let so much time go by between posts that I have to go back and remember what happened.

Everything hasn’t been completely smooth since the last post. A couple of days ago they found a blood clot attached to his central line. This is the line that was surgically placed in his chest and goes to his heart. It is used to easily administer several medications and treatments. A blood clot that comes loose and travels through his system could be very dangerous. The problem is that they needed that line for a couple more days to finish giving him some medications he needed. The doctors decided to keep the line and give Brandon medication to keep the clot from growing.

He continued to improve and he had some really good days but his recovery still wasn’t as fast as we hoped. He lost a lot of the extra fluid and he started looking and acting like Brandon again.

Well, today they took out the line. It went well and ever since he has had a great day. We need to remember that his progress may slow down, or even back up again, but they were able to significantly reduce the flow of his oxygen today and he seems to be doing great. We now are looking forward to the time when Amy can begin to feed him again.

Katelyn is doing well. She isn’t growing as much as we would hope but there aren’t any real problems. We are going to take her back to the dermatologist to have her look at Katelyn’s lip and make sure that everything is healing correctly. She is however, remarkably cute and very loved by her entire family.