6 Months Old

Isaac turned 6 months old yesterday. ....he's growing up so fast! Everything had been going pretty steady with Isaac until he caught a stomach bug. We thought that maybe somehow he had come in contact with it from one of us, but we found out that he was one of the luckies that caught it during one of his clinic visits. It turned out that someone may have had it and a lot of the heart kids came in contact with it. So, we had a fun two weeks of diarrhea and vomiting. We thought it would never end. Thankfully, we never really had to get him admitted for dehydration but we did have to go very frequently to get his blood levels checked and that was bad enough. We also had to be aware that he COULD get dehydrated very easily.

Yesterday, he also scared us half to death because his g-tube came completely out of his stomach. Now, we couldn't really remember the process of what we should do if that was to happen but it was in the back of our minds. Thankfully, we did the right thing by calling his nurses and taking him in right away. We were told that if we wait longer than an hour, that the hole could end up closing up. Whew!!! We had him there within thirty minutes so they were able to put his g-tube in pretty quickly. I'll know what to do next time (which hopefully there won't be).

The only other update is that we could even be coming back home a little sooner than we had expected. Isaac's doctor (on one of our last recent clinic visits) had said that his goal was to get us out of Houston by mid-September. Well, at his clinic yesterday, we were told that after they schedule him for another swallow study (to see what thickness of liquids are safe by mouth for him) and get his drug levels at normal, then we will be released. We're not counting our chickens yet, but that could be as soon as next weekend, but for sure closer to two weeks if not earlier. We're so excited but trying not to think about it.

In between all the commotion of going back and forth to the hospital, we were finally able to take the boys to get some professional pictures taken. Hope you enjoy them and some of our homemade pictures too.










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