THINGS ARE BETTER.....

THEY ARE NOT GOING BACK IN TO HIS LITTLE HEART!!!! Great news! So this morning when the surgeon, Dr. O'Brien made rounds he said everything looked good and they would pull the drainage tubes today. I said, then your not going to have to go back in. He looked puzzled and when I told him what we were told yesterday he was very upset. He said Cooper looks great and the manner in which they fixed his heart there will be slight leakage. He said he would have a talk with the other doctors. Not 10 minutes later they were in our room apologizing for the "misunderstanding". I am not angry in any way, I think the doctors are very good. What I do think is that our surgeon did some modification that helped to compensate for the problems that he thought we would encounter. We are now encountering them and the other doctors just don't fully understand that Dr. O'Brien already took these into consideration and made modifications in Cooper's little heart. So basically I think Dr. O'Brien is a genius! Anyway, so now they are proceeding forward with trying to get him off the ventilator. It will continue to be a slow process but at least we are moving forward again. Cooper has been given two medications that help his heart function better and I get the impression that he may always take medications but that is fine by me. Medications I can deal with, starting this process all over again I can't.

So Cooper's drainage tubes in his heart are out and they only thing left to do with that area is to pull his staples and that should happen tomorrow. All we are waiting on now is to get him off the ventilator!!!

Raelynn is suppose to visit today and we are going to have a little picnic outside thanks to Sherri. I really need to see her sweet face! I miss her so much. It is getting harder to tell her goodbye each time she comes to visit, but she is still her little spunky self and continues to act like everything is ok. However she does keep asking me when she can come live with us again. I just smile and tell her soon I hope. She says "when they finish fixing Cooper's heart?" Honestly, she is beyond her years. She never seems resentful to Cooper either. She always is more concerned with how he is doing than with anything else. She is quite amazing!