Homeward Bound, or so we thought...

Tennyson is doing great, really. He's weighing in at 5 lbs. 12.2. ounces and seems to be growing like a weed. Last night when I went in for his 5pm feeding, one of the day nurses stated, "I don't work again until Tuesday, and you'll be home before then"...I was like I doubt it, maybe next weekend or something. Jeanne the nurse practitioner was there and said, "next weekend is a long time." I said, "not really"...she said, "I'd be surprised if you're not home by this time next week, unless there's a setback or he has some major episodes."

So needless to say I was elated (we both were but Travis got so sick yesterday he was sleeping at Ronald from noon-the whole night with a fever, however he's feeling a bit better now). Jeanne stated the changes they made for Mr. Tennyson were quite a few, he was put on Prevacid, given Iron with Vitamins (which will both go home with us) and he can nurse once a shift. I said, "I was told last week that he wouldn't be strong enough to nurse for quite a while." She said, "I don't know who told you that but he's a big boy, let him show us whether he can do it or not." So again I was elated...

Huge praises that Tennyson did great with the nursing at 8pm and then they follow with a bottle of which he took 27 ounces (he's been eating around 50-60MLs so that was pretty good for the first time). After I left there, I headed out to Oronogo to put the trash out as it's been there for seven weeks now and pretty ripe...it was already out when I got there so I am assuming the Bonds' took care of that, thanks guys.

So anyways I had some things to leave at the house as I cleaned out everything unnecessary from the Ronald house because we were talking about going home and that only made logical sense to me so I went ahead and unloaded it and played briefly with the puppies.

I guess you can probably tell by the title that things have changed since then a bit. On my way back to Joplin from Oronogo I got a phone call from Jeanne, the nurse practitioner. She said he'd had a diaper that was suspicious looking so they tested it and it came back positive for blood. They ran stat labs and a chest x-ray. The chest x-ray showed air all over in his stomach and his bowels were distended however he'd just ate so that wasn't so alarming but they are watching it closely. Also the CBC came back within normal ranges and the CRP (which shows if infection is present) came back negative. This kid is like the poop master (with 8 dirty ones yesterday) and they waited all night last night for another dirty one to send to the lab to test for C.Diff, rotovirus (in both of these cases Tennyson will have to be isolated and will receive nutrition only through IV meaning his vitamins and minerals but no food, they say it usually lasts between 7-14 days) and lactose intolerance (meaning we would have to switch to soy formula).

There is apparently something about me, because we nursed this morning around 8am and then he had two right in a row. So we're currently awaiting the results from the lab, I will post them when I know something.

The nurses and nurse practitioner find it so strange that there was blood in his stool as he's not acting sick or no vitals are showing that he's feeling ill at all. We're praying that his bowels were just irritated with all the diapers yesterday but I will let you know when I do.

Needless to say it was a short and exhausting night, so please pray for Tennyson, that he would be healed from whatever's going on, that his feedings would continue to go well and that his Prevacid would take effect (it doesn't until after it's been in his system 24 hours, so by 6pm tonight). Pray for Travis and I as I was so ready to be going home next week so I'm a bit spent with all the emotions and we're exhausted.

Know that we know the Lord can do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine and are trusting Him at His word on this. He knows what's best for our little one and how to care for him better than we do. Thank you for interceeding on our behalf, know that we're indebted to you.

All our love.

Looking to our Lord-
Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers