Post Op Appointment!

Alexander had his post operation appointment on Tuesday morning. He had great reviews. Also, as of right now it looks like he won't have to have anymore surgeries either. :) She said we will for sure know at the next appointment. That appointment will be at the end of October.

Alexander can now be around other people and we can go out and about. He loves going places.

Well I had a dentist appointment yesterday morning so my dad watched Alexander. When I got back my dad had cut his hair. It looks so cute and he looks like a little boy!

Also our carpet is dry again but we have to get new carpet now! It stinks real bad in our basement. John and I wanted new carpet anyway but we didn't want this to happen.

Hurricane Ike

The living room / bar area!!!

Behind the bar...man look at those puddles!
Going from the unfinished part to the finshed part!

Yes I know we are not in the Hurricane path but we sure got the weather to go along with it! Well this morning John and I were having a nice morning watching this crazy storm outside our bedroom window. Well I decided to go down stairs to see if any water was coming down our walls. Well next thing I know our drains were back up and our basement was flooding. The city sewers were backing up. So needless to say we having been having all kinds of fun cleaning up the basement today! Here is our lovely puddles of water! :(

Making Progress!!!

Alexander is doing great! His incision is almost completely healed as well. It is amazing how fast the little ones recover. You almost think "wow that baby just went through heart surgery". He is rolling over again and laughing away. We go back to the doctor on Tuesday to get his post-op check up. Hopefully everything will go okay. We will get x-rays, echo and ekg of his heart. Hopefully this well mean that we can be around germs again. I will probably go back to work too! That's if we find a sitter. :( John works for himself so we need health insurance.

Also, with in the past couple days Alexander's first tooth is starting to pop through his gum. You definitley can tell too! He has been getting very fussy, oragel and tylenol have been a blessing though. I am so glad he is finally getting a tooth, he is almost 10 months!

Home from the Hospital!

Today we got to come home from the hospital. Alexander is doing so well too! He stayed up most of the day and then we gave him a bath at about 6:30. He loved it! We only could sponge bath him so my mom helped me. :)

I really think he knows he is back home now too! As the day went home he was more and more himself!

Going Home - We think!

So when the surgeon came in today for his routine check, he said he thought Alexander would go home today. The cardiologist came in later and said the same thing. YEAH! So when the nurses came in they said well we heard Alexander might go home today or tomorrow. I was irritated but didn't say anything. I think they say that to have there but.

The cardiologist actually said it would be about noon time and asked if we had any question for when we get home.

He is doing good again today. Except the baby next to him did wake him up everytime he was hungry or needed a diaper changed. I stayed last night and I woke up everytime too! He is loud compared to our baby! :)

So check back soon so I can up date everyone that we are home! :)

Out of the ICU

So Alexander is finally out of the ICU. He is on the regular floor now. Yesterday, Saturday, he was moved. He didn't have a good day though. We think he was in alot of pain so eventually we finally gave him some morphine. We were trying only to give him tylenol but he wasn't having it. John stayed over night with him. He said that he woke up everytime the baby next to him woke up. Alexander isn't use to alot of noise so I think it is hard for him to sleep with all that noise.

This morning when I got here he was off his oxygen and ready to go. He is full of smiles again and feeling much better. He just got his last IV out of his head. So right now he is only on monitors. The surgeon said he would probably get out of the hospital tomorrow! Fingers crossed with lots of prayers.

Day 4

Day 4 was much better today! Alexander was up all day. He got it drainage tube taken out of his chest& his central venous iv. He did have to get another IV put in though. They put it in his forehead. The nurse said it looks worse than what it really is though. He was such a good boy today. :) I finally got to hold him too! We were trying to get him to cough some by sitting him up. He didn't really like to sit up with his head up. I think it hurt his chest. I know it would hurt mine. But all and all today was a good day! Tomorrow should be better because he will be on the regular floor if everything goes as planned over night. His surgeon said he didn't want to move him today just because of what had happened on Wed.

P.S. Alexander has never really sucked a binky and now it is his best friend i am not kidding. It has been in his mouth for the past 24 hours non-stop.