Doing Great!

Hi All, Jess and I are about to head over to go see Colby this morning. He was looking great last night. He still has all the same stuff that he had before surgery. He was sedated and intubated. He was on a few more meds than before surgery but still minimal for eveything he has gone through. He currently has a chest tube that helps to drain fluids and a fully catheter. He also has some pacemaker wires on his chest that are there in case he starts to have an abnormal rhythm they can attach a pacemaker to the wires and control the rhythm themselves. That is all non-invasive, the wires were attached in the OR. He also has some different monitoring devices that watch very closely his blood sugar levels and insulin intake. Can't remember if I mentioned this before but Colby is taking part in a study of children and babies to see if their blood sugar levels are controlled within a tight window if it helps them to heal faster and get out of the ICU quicker. This is the case already for adults. The study involves monitoring his insulin and giving him insulin to keep his blood sugar levels at a certain level. So he has some different monitoring devices for that too. I can't say enough how good he looks, he is such a strong little baby. We're thrilled.

They gave us a pager incase they need to get ahold of us at any time as the cellphones in the icu are goofy. They work well where you're not supposed to answer and don't work well where you can. But hey do have our cell numbers and hotel room #.

When Jess and I were there last night, Polly, his survival flight nurse stopped by to see him. I hadn't seen her since they brought him over and Jess never got to meet her officially. So that was great, she gave us big hugs and we chatted for a few. They told us whenever we would like we can bring Colby back to Ann Arbor to see the survial flight helicopter and take some pictures with it, etc. So that was really cool. Also it was the last night for our ICU nurse Tiffany. She has some well deserved time-off. She has taken care of Colby every night he has been her since arrival. The nurses here really form bonds with their patients. Maybe some don't but the nurses that have been dealing with, Colby really have. Tiffany said she'll be calling the icu everyonce in a while to make sure he's doing well.

Anyways we're gonna go see the little man and get some breakfast so I'll let everyone know how he's doing a little later!! Again, thank you all for everything!

Scott and Jess

P.S.: Cooper has been a trooper through all this, he has been here playing, running around etc. He has been bouncing back and forth between our parents. He now says "Baaabyyyy" when he sees a baby so maybe its sinking in a little bit. He was shown some pics of Colby on the camera and gave him kisses on the camera. Too cute.