Almost 9 months without Hospital visit

Well, we made it almost 9 months without being admitted to the hospital and
3months without having to see our pediatrician. The week of Aug. 5th Joel
ended up with a gut bug and a UTI Urinary Tract Infection that gave us one week
in the hospital and 2-weeks on IV antibiotics. He ended up with Ecoli of all things in his central line and blood stream. It came from his urine they said and he did clear it.

Being in the hospital now is a little more challenging than it was 9 months ago with him crawling all over and wanting to be mobile. His nurses (operative word nurses ) not just one loaned him an activity saucer which he loved. You could hear him through the who pediatric floor and they new when he was awake from his naps. Joel manages to flirt with every nurse he has and he ended up with the whole wing to himself and 4 nurses in his room just googling over him. (just broke his heart to have all that attention)!!

He's doing very well, crawling all over and trying to stand by himself and does for about 1/2 a sec. and then plop on the floor.

Joel is just amazing He has now decided that a bottle isn't so bad and at the most can suck on a bottle and drink between 5-12 cc's of formula by mouth. This is huge for him as he wouldn't even let near his head 6months ago. Now he watches curious george which we all now know by heart even his sister (Ashley who narrates it for us while its on) I sit on the floor with him and we will watch curious George as I feed him his bottle. Its such a satisfying thing to be able to feed him some what naturally. It brings tears to our eyes as we see what the Lord has done for us.

He still has trouble swallowing pureed stage 2 baby foods and will it some crunchy things but only if its tiny, tiny bites and then he will still gag some.

We go up to OSHU this week for follow up appointments with GI, urology , and have an MRI done of his heart to make sure that the 2nd aortic valve isn't closing off the esophagus. We will also meet with urology to see if he has to have surgery on the second eureter and to have his circumcision done and they have said this will be done on an outpatient basis.

We will be home Friday evening and I will up date this weekend.

Enough for now I need to get ready for bed and start thinking of all the things we will need for the trip up. Its amazing how much we have to pack for him even though its just 2 days.