Monday Night Update

First thank you to Lianna and to Shaila for the buttons! Please feel free to add them to your blogs to spread the word about Team Brayden!

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers! Brayden has had another good day! They've begun to wean him off his oxygen and when we left tonight he was down to 93%! Woo-Hoo! When he gets down to between 20-30% they will begin to wean him off the nitric (I was calling it nitrous, opps).

The one piece of possibly bad news we received was that after they wean him off the nitric he will need a brain MRI. There is a possibility of some brain damage, we don't know to what extent but our nurse said that she didn't think it would amount to more than developmental delays if anything, but it's hard to tell at this point.

We received some very thoughtful gifts from bloggers today, and I really want to thank you all. That was so unexpected and so kind of you!



I have a few pics to share as well:

This is Chris and I today with Brayden at the hospital - he is holding onto my finger!!!

Here is a pic of him holding my finger (his billi lights are on):
Downstairs at ACH is this mural:

This is Angel One, the helicopter that transported Brayden to ACH. This was taken at about 1am on 1-14 when we arrived at Willow Creek to meet the ACH team that would be transporting him:

This is the Angel One t-shirt they gave Brayden for flying with them, and that little thing at the bottom was his bracelet from Willow Creek:

One quick story: Dr. Arrington, the one who started the NICU unit at ACH approached us this morning (which scared me because I knew he wasn't Brayden's attending) and then he smiled really big and shared that his daughter in Wisconsin had found my blog and saw that her dad was treating Brayden the other night and asked him to check in! How cool is that?! Dr. Arrington's daughter - if you are reading this - that was just so cool! Thank you and thank you to your dad, without him I really don't think our son would have made the turn. Dr. Arrington really has a gift from God for treating these babies, and I am so, so thankful to him. God bless your family.