Crazy Awesome!!!

So Smiths is having the best sale ever!!! They are rounding up all your coupons to $1! What, Crazy Awesome!! At Smiths today my total was $442 and I only paid $188. It was such a rush, I love coupons, the receipt was as tall as I am!!!

My cord to my camera is MIA so hopefully I can post soon, with pictures!

HOME!!

We came home yesterday afternoon and hopefully we will stay here. George is doing great, he is on his new medications and his x-ray looked soooo good. What we are hoping is that we can get his lungs healthy so they can catch up and not get sick as much, now that we have opened his bronchial tube. So here is to hoping and having a fun winter, oh wait it is supposed to be spring?!! Silly me Utah does not have spring.

Hospital Again

So George woke up this morning with a fever so we are back in the hospital. They did a chest x-ray and labs and his lung is partially collapsed. He also has pneumonia AGAIN!! What we are thinking is that his last one never cleared up. So they are going to put him on a medication that they use for Cystic Fibrosis that will breakup the secretions in his lung so we can get him all clear so the pneumonia won't come back. Hopefully we will only be here for a few days but we will keep you updated. Thanks!!

Shark Bait, oo ha ha!!

George's x-ray this morning looked better so they decided to let us go home!!! I think this is one of my favorite things, being scattered all over the place. To come home and have all my peeps in one place and with me. Nothing better than that.

George is doing great, he rarely needs any pain meds and can forget that he had surgery so he can get better faster. As good of a friend he is with Scarlet he really missed his brother, Grant. It was so cute on Saturday for my birthday they came up to the hospital and we sat outside and had cake. When Grant and Scarlet had to leave George just started to cry and said "I miss Grant" so being who I am I started to cry too. He is the sweetest!! Here are a few picts of the new "shark bite!!"

So after looking at these pictures you are probably thinking what I am that I have man hands!?! Really noting feminine about them, kinda a shocking realization.

If wishes were fishes...

"...we'd all have a fry, if horse turds were biscuits we'd eat till we die!!"

So we wished we would be home today but his x-ray this morning did not look good. They think his lung may be partially collapsed and/or there is some extra fluid build up in his lungs. So we have been going on some long walks and getting him to take big breaths. He lost his last IV this morning so hopefully we can handle this extra fluid with oral medication otherwise tomorrow we will have to give him a new IV and we will most likely have to stay a few more days. Lets all hope for a good x-ray in the morning so we can get out of here!!

3rd Floor

We got transferred to the 3rd floor and it is going good. They took out his art line and central line. So he only has one IV, the chest tube and his catheter giving his incision direct pain medication. He has gone potty a couple of times which is good to get him walking a little. He is excited that I get to stay in the room with him tonight, I don't know if I am they wake you up all night!?! We are one step closer to coming home so we will keep you updated!! Thanks for all the love and concern.

Day 2 of Recovery

George has been such a trooper. He came out of surgery yesterday around 1pm with a central line in his neck, an arterial line in his left wrist, an line in his right foot, and big chest tube in his left side coming out out the large incision they made to go in and do the procedure. Needless to say he has a hard time getting comfortable last night to get a good night sleep.

This morning he looks great. The anesthesia has worn off and his happy personality is back. He keeps asking when is it time to go home.

The plan is to remove the central line and the arterial line some time today. Once those lines are out then we can be moved to the 3rd floor (move out of the intensive care). If things move according to plan we should be able to take him home in a few days.

This morning he wanted to play his Leepster but he can't use his left hand because of the arterial line so he wanted me to play it for him and he would just watch. We talked him in to just watching Star Wars again.

thanks for your thoughts and prayers.