Better day!

The happy face. This is the only picture that we have of him since birth with nothing on his face. This is right before mom placed the new NG tube in him.

"I am so mad."

So this is the 3rd time that I am writing this. Blogger has been giving me a hard time and not saving. So when I set the computer down and it turns off the wi-fi here will kick you out and everything is lost. Owen has had a better day. You can sense that he is getting stronger his cry is beginning to get a lot stronger now as well. He has had a sore throat and it's been difficult to cry after being intubated 2 times. He has tolerated his feedings better today with only 1 episode of spit up. He took more from a bottle with the last feeding than he has in a few days. We are back to holding him a lot as well which is good for all of us. Chelsea had a good learning day today. Since Owen will be going home more than likely with the feeding tube in his nose we must know how to replace it if Owen pulls it out. There was no practicing on dummies for Chelsea. She was a trooper like usual and we pulled out his old tube and Chelsea put in the new one including checking placement and taping it down to little mans face by herself. I do this often at work so not too big of a deal for me to do.

We were moved to the step down unit last night but would be better called a step down closet. We share this closet with 3 other pts and their families The other families are very nice. One of them saw us sitting at the shuttle stop last night and gave us a ride back to Ron's. It was nice that they went 20 mins out of their way when it was late and they still needed to drive back to Fairfield. If there is one thing that I have learned in this whole thing is that people can be so giving, thoughtful, helpful, nice, loving, compassionate. We are so fortunate for what we have and learn from peoples generosity everyday