You want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s start with the good news!! As of 1pm today (Wednesday November 10), we are discharged and heading home. Henry has had a great morning. He slept in 2 hour increments last night from about 9pm-6am, so not horrible. Once his anesthesia and nerve block …
Really hard actually
Just a quick update…Surgery went as planned, about 2 hours total from the time they took him until the surgeon came to tell us he was done.It took about 2 hours from then until we saw him again. Coming off anesthesia is hard for anyone but I can’t explain how it is on babies that …
A Face You’ll Never Forget
You think you’re prepared for your child to go back for surgery until they wheel them away. I remember walking away from the nurse with Kristen as they took Henry to the operating room and feeling helpless. The best cleft surgeon, with the best cleft team, were about to have Henry in their care for …
Sorry we left you hanging
So where are we now… as we approach Henry’s next surgery and I was getting to share when his surgery is and what we are expecting, I realized we left you hanging after the TPR didn’t go through back in July with the sibling group. Life has been busy and we completely forgot to update …
The Lord knows what he’s doing
When we started this process a couple of months ago, we knew there were going to be a lot of “what if’s,” emotions and scenarios that we were going to have to think through. We knew that in the end, the Lord knows our hearts and knows what’s best for the kids even if that …
Pray with us
A little over a month ago we announced that we were starting the process of fostering with the hopes of adoption. As of Saturday, we are officially done with our foster training, our paperwork’s done and we are waiting for our home study walk through. Today we ask for specific prayers. The TPR (terminate parental …
What does your umbrella look like?
LIFE UPDATE: Henry: Yesterday (6/3/21), we had Henry’s post-op appointment from his surgery. Everything looks great and is healing well. They told us to start with scar massages and to put scar cream on the lip (they gave us what they recommended that is safe for babies). Once the doctor was done seeing us, she …
Tomorrow will be better
People have been asking how Henry is doing now that we are 6 days post surgery and I keep forgetting to give a little update. Our biggest thing right now is eating. In the hospital he was drinking 4 oz every 3 hours (even through the night) and then most of the day on Tuesday …
See you in a couple months
So I think the last thing that we updated was right after surgery. We finally got to see and hold him around 1PM and he pretty much snoozed for a couple of hours from that point. Every time he would wake up he would be VERY agitated but they said that is more him waking …
Thank you
As we were awaiting the OR opening up this morning, I leaned over and told Henry, “You have people praying for you all over the world, son!” The knowledge of Henry’s name being offered up in prayers gave us the confidence we needed as they rolled him away. We ended up getting to our room …
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