Keep your fingers crossed!!

I LOVE my Pumpkin!

    Thank you mom and dad for coming!

A quick update on our day.  They started the morning by drawing blood at 4:00 a.m.  The awesome thing about the pic line is that none of us woke up!!!  The nurse came in at 6:30 and I asked her if she drew the blood.  She said they came in and drew it and none of us woke up.  I can't tell you how amazing that is.  The worst part of our entire experience has been drawing blood.  His hemoglobin had dropped to a 7.1 so they had to do another transfusion.  They said this was expected after surgery yesterday and with all the blood they have been taking.  They aren't going to test his levels again until the morning.  The home nurse care people came by, and they taught us how to flush his pic lines.  A home care nurse will come to our house once a week to clean or do something to his line.  Sometimes this still seems like a dream.

We have had more guests today who have brought yummy treats.  It is always fun to see familiar faces.  I got to get out of the hospital for a little while.  I had a wonderful hour and half of escaping at Melissa's house.  My sweet friends Autumn, Julie, and Mandi came over and the five of us got to visit.  It was refreshing.  I also got to love on Bailey and Daisy for a few minutes before I headed back up to the hospital.

We have another praise!  We thought we might have some issues with insurance because of James starting his new job and preexisting conditions.  After many hours on the internet and phone calls we believe that we can still join a Cobra plan through HISD.  James Thomas will hopefully have coverage for this next year.  Thank you God for this light!

The plan for tomorrow is to draw another round of blood and test his levels.  They said as long as he doesn't spike a fever or something drastic happen with his levels we should go home!  He may need one last transfusion but it is looking good.  We will follow up at the Texas Children's Clinic on Friday.  We will visit the clinic twice a week for awhile but being home is perfectly safe for him!  I am anxious to get him to a pumpkin patch to take some fall pictures, but until then enjoy our little video of the pumpkin we have here!  This is a new road for the Garrett family but we are going down it and we will get to the end.  I am positive about that!