He's not hooked up to anything - no monitors, no oxygen, no IVs. Other than eating thru a tube in his belly, he seems like a regular kid. It's kinda weird for us to have him home after so long in the hospital. We have just spent our first straight 24 hours with him in a month - not the normal intro into life with a newborn, but little with this newborn has been 'normal.' For example, he's on 5 medications right now. All of which we 'draw up' with syringes and dispense through his G-tube. It's just kinda weird. So, weird or not ... we're home. Finally back on
Just so you know, we haven't decided about what to do with public places just yet. We were planning on going to worship tomorrow morning but we were told to avoid public places for 2 weeks post-discharge - just to be safe. He has had open-heart surgery after all so I guess it's not unrealistic to ask. We just miss our church family. We have been so well loved by Redeemer (and a whole lot of other people too) and we miss y'all so much. So if you don't see us tomorrow morning in worship or we sneak out early, please know that we would love to hang around and hug each of you and thank you all, but it may be best for our son to not have lots of loving (though germ-carrying) admirers just yet.
Anna Catherine and Colin are on their way back down to us from PA as I type. My brother, his wife and two kids are bringing them down and will be here with us for a few days. So, if the Lord is willing, tonight we will finally have all five of us in the house at the same time. What a long strange trip it's been ... and will continue to be, no doubt.
Thank you for your ongoing love and support. We could not, can not do this alone.
grant
ps - Just so you can know that it's real, I've attached a pic of Samuel sleeping in his very own bed in our house! (and another one that I couldn't resist.)
