I Don't Want to Miss A Thing...

of course however Tennyson missed everything on his first car ride...

That's right, we're home!!!

Saturday morning while I was working the nurse asked Travis if we wanted to room in that evening. Of course he called me and we discussed it however decided that would be wonderful, I think we were a bit scared and nervous.

When I got off work, we met at Ronald McDonald and cleaned out our room however didn't check out as many times parents are kicked out of their rooms early in the morning and then have no where to go. So we did that, headed over for his 4pm feeding and then grabbed some dinner with mom and unloaded the car at home before heading back at 8 to room in.

We spent the night in the pediatric wing (which in Travis' opinion was heaven), there were two twin beds with the bassinette inbetween and two televisions (we hadn't seen TV in so long) and a kitchen down the hall we were able to use at any time. Each room on the unit has it's own decorating theme and ours was a jungle (pictures will be attached later) so it was neat.

Around 11pm we gave Tennyson a bath and got him dressed to have his picture taken to be posted on Freeman's website (I'll let you know when it's online) however the cute outfit I had picked out was a newborn and you could have put three of him into it. So we resorted to an old standby and had his picture taken in a navy blue pair of sweats and a hoodie. After that we were up a few times but nothing major.

Around 10am we returned him to the NICU to check out of our room at Ronald. After doing this we returned for his noon feeding and Dr. Topper visited with us around his care, how perfect he is, his medications, etc. and dismissed us. Needless to say by 1:30 we were heading home.

We got home and unloaded everything from the car, and ordered pizza (thank goodness Papa John's now delivers) and ate, while admiring Tennyson who was sleeping peacefully in his car seat.

The night went well with his monitor only alarming a few times because one of his leads had gotten loose, otherwise all was well.

This morning around 9:30 Buddy from Health Essentials came by and put in our new buddy, a large oxygen humidifying machine, dropped off five 12 hour tanks and a 42 hour option in case we lose power. He also brought a new kind of lead for us to try that he believes will work better and alarm less.

Then the home health nurse came around 1:30 to check him out and see how things were going. Saturday evening he weighed 5lbs. 15.1 ounces and today he weighed 6lbs. 3 ounces so we must be doing something right. He was satting 100% so the plan of care at this time is to weane him down to 75ccs (from the 100 we're on right now) next week, then 50 ccs the next week, then 25 ccs the following week, then we will only have the oxygen at night for a month or so as he tolerates.

It was great to get a routine started and home health will visit every Monday and Friday. We have an appointment with the eye doctor Wednesday morning and our pediatrician next Tuesday morning. We will find out then if we need to see a pediatric neurologist because apparently on his MRI the radiologist found an artifact on his cortex. They were not testing for this and it was only found in some of the pictures so there is discussion that it may not need to be checked at this time however we will know more after visiting with Dr. Holmes.

So sorry this post is late, I wanted to get the laundry caught up and the house cleaned up today before we get started with everything that will be happening in the next few weeks. Don't worry, I will continue to post and let you know how things are going.

We love you all and thank you for your prayers.

Praising our Father for His Goodness-

Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers