COOP IS ON THE WAY TO RECOVERY...........

Cooper is doing great. The surgical team rounded this morning and they are not going to re-enter the chest to fuse the sternum. With the swelling is decreasing the sternum appears to be fine. The infection is a strep infection, but they are still trying to determine if it Group A or Group B Infection. The good news is that the infection does appear to be superficial which means they will not need to enter the chest again. Come to find out, if the infection had entered the chest it would quickly attack either the stints or the conduit system they just put in and they would have to go in, remove the infected area and redo the surgery we just had. That is scary! So we, once again, are extremely fortunate! Anyway, the news is all good and we will just continue to wait and find out the next step. Coop himself is doing great as long as the nurses and doctors stay out of his room....
when the nurses and doctors do enter....Cooper cries unbelievable. It sounds like they will let us go home tomorrow with antibiotics, then back to clinic on Tuesday and Cooper a little home bound for awhile to avoid unnecessary germs.

Raelynn had a horse show today so Daddy took her. She placed 1st with both judges. I am so proud of her!!!!