Cruising along!

Hey all, Colby is still crusing along, he's actually taken down his last feed without it coming back up. He's currently taking down his next feed and no signs of it coming back up yet, so we're keeping our fingers crossed. He is somewhat out of it as they gave him some medicine to...remove one of his chest tubes! Yup, he's one more tube down. One to go. The last shift his last remaining tube's output was 20 CCs so they'd like to see 5 CCs in one shift before removing it. So we're rooting for that. Some of the "normal" baby stuff is beginning to be metioned to us, hearing screening, circumcision, etc. So that's a relief too. We just found out Colby will need to be on the special formula he's currently taking for about 6 weeks. Its looking more and more like we may need to have him on the dreaded tube feed for a few weeks once he's home. I think we're gonna attempt to get him trying some bottle feeds here really soon, to see if he can take it.

I'll be heading back to work tomorrow as my time off is up. I took an extra day for today and will be back on the scene, tomorrow. It'll be nice to get back to work, some normal-ness, as opposed to all the craziness of the past couple weeks. Jess will be staying here at the hospital and I'll come over in the evening after work. Hopefully we won't have to deal with this situation too much longer. Once Colby comes home from the hospital I'll try to work something out so I can be home for a few more days to help out. Work has been so understanding with everything, I can't thank them enough.