LIFE GOES ON......

So yesterday I broke down and called our pediatrician. I spoke with Jill, our wonderful nurse and friend, and she said to go ahead and call Dr. Kaine, our cardiologist to let them know what is going on. Today I talked to cardiology and basically they said it is not abnormal for Coop to be purple/gray/blue. They said his color has been surprisingly good since his second surgery but they would expect some discoloration with the size of his VSD. This just means his circulation and oxygen level are not perfect which we are well aware of. Basically, they said as long as it is only his color we should not worry. What we really want to watch for is if when he is awake he is not active or if his appetite decreases. With either of those symptoms we should call them right away. I can assure you that when Cooper is awake he is anything but inactive! As for his appetite, well he is still drinking his milk so I think we are doing fine. Of course we have to watch him and basically they summed it up that we already know there is something wrong the question is when do we want to fix it and we don't want to fix it until we are out of cold and flu season and Cooper is as big as possible. Therefore, things need to be drastically worse before they will go forward with any other procedures. I was actually very relieved. I don't like to see the scary colors that we see but just knowing that the color alone is nothing to be alarmed about is reassuring. We will continue to take it day by day and continue on as if nothing is wrong.

Tonight we had another night of swimming and this time caught a little video of him actually swimming in between his crying. We are still holding on to hope that he will eventually come to like it or at least tolerate it.

After lessons we visited an art display at Blue Plate Dinners and then out to eat with Kelly and Kaden and Stephanie (Kelly's sister not mine :) ). We really had a great time and Raelynn got really silly on the way home. We were laughing so hard and I don't even remember why. It is great to act like a 3 year old sometimes :)

Tomorrow is off to tumbling and then home to clean! Fun, fun, fun!