No Worries

First I want to say....The ladies in Pet Scans at WVUH Rock!!!! My sister-in-law, Jamie, works there and this sweet group of gals have prayed for our boy and they follow every other preemie website I post. Thank you ladies for your love and support. We are truly blessed to know you. We WILL come visit again. (Last appt we went so Brody could meet his fan club)

My brother, Craig, and Jamie came to visit Brody last night. I wanted to talk more about what Jamie and I were talking about last night....worry. Jamie always marvels at how through all of this I don't worry. There are many reason for this. 1) I never learned to worry. It is a taught reaction. Think of a huge worrier you know and I bet their parents are the same. My parents never taught me to worry - thank you God. 2) I am a realist - I know worry won't change an outcome. 3) God is in Control - Sincerely I believe this. Brody may have developmental delays (so far he's perfect). I am real enough to know he may have future problems from his humble start but I also KNOW that God has tomorrow covered and He is already there waiting for us. God empowers us to handle anything that life throws at us. So if one day Brody has problems...1) God will be with us. 2) He will give us the strenght and power to handle it. So why would I worry about something that God has coverad already?

Sorry I didn't blog last week I had a sinus infection and a couple vertebrea in my upper back jumped out of place. I don't think I could have held my arms in the position to type. But this week....much better.

Brody is an angel as usual. He still loves his jumpy chair. He loves to watch Maddy and touch her face (she is very tolerant - what a good girl). He is getting more vocal (as I write I hear him "talking" in his room) but he doesn't like an audience when he talks it's either by himself or just with one or two around. His hands aren't nearly as fascinating this week, and today he realized he had feet but I think that was because he had on his socks with the flying WV.

OK, so I wrote that on Monday and was going to come back to it (it is 10:40 on Thur night) and then I don't know what happened. Whew what a busy week. I'll update more tomorrow. Till then xoxoxoxo.

Stuffy Boy Update

Just incase you haven't seen our celebrity in ads. That's him (the little guy in the middle,lol) with his Nurse Tara.

Master Brody is fighting either a cold or allergies. He is very congested and not his happy self, although he still tries to be. It's 4:45am and I got up about 3:00 to check him and now can't go back to sleep. Tomorrow my wagon will be draggin, oh well.

Other than being stuffy he is good. He loves his jumpy seat, oh my, you should see how he jumps and laughs, especially when Daddy is singing to him. He is getting along just fine with his heart, no more episodes since the doc adjusted his med dosage. When on his belly he is really lifting himself high, it probably won't be long before he is crawling. He is doing everything perfectly for his corrected age.

If you remember I told you I would blog more about Our Favorite Things/ Importance Challenge. It may come in parts because I think sleep is finally finding me.....and I have a collage of thoughts.

The reason I decided to do this little exercise is because for a couple of days in a row it was presented to me so I took it as a God Prompt to talk to you. Anyone that has been in any touchy/feely class with me at church may remember that if we are ever to "confess" our biggest fear mine is always the same, "having to live without Brent". I don't EVER want to do that, ever. Brent knows this and he always prays that he outlives me (sounds weird if you didn't know my fear). Someone that was visiting us recently said that while it was touch and go for our little man they prayed for God to not take him home because I wouldn't survive it. Hmmm... Obviously, not a blog reader, you all know my faith. God will always meet me at tomorrow and I can survive anything with Christ, so that comment for me was hurtful to my strength of faith. But the deeper Brody gets ingrained into us and our life, neither Brent nor I can imagine life without him. Even in the NICU he was ours and we wanted nothing more than to protect, love, and nurture him. In Brent's words we were "hard-wired" to want to do these things for Brody.

Then I read a story in Reader's Digest about a woman that lost her son in 9-11..........til next time.

Oh and remind me to tell you all about our March for Dimes walk too. Good night cyber-family.

Isn't he cute?

Once again it is late and I am still working to catch-up on lost sleep. So I will ask for forgiveness by buying you off with some adorable pictures of Master Brody. I PROMISE the details of our 12 hour PICU trip tomorrow. I have gotten a few emails and phone calls, thank you for your concern, love, and support. You all are great and we love you. (Brodys Daddy here) filling in for the much exhasted Brodys Mommy. Basically he Red Lined the Tachometer again. Early thursday morning Maddy was going back and forth between his room and the living room where Deedee was folding clothes and when she went to check on him he was moaning and restless. After changing him and trying to settle him she quickly decided to check his pulse and found it to be 256 according to our in home monitor. She then got me up and we attempted the few things they taught us to try with no success. So packed up we went to Ruby. They were awesome as usuall. It took over an hour to get it Broke from 288 to back down to 116 but Doctor Brady was successful with the Ice water bag treatment again. Way to go Doc. And most importantly THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our little prince has had a couple of tough days as he is trying to get back into his routine and his is sore from the multiple unsuccesful attempt at getting an IV in him. Finaly a nurse from the PICU was brought in (Maurice) and was able to thread the needle. He was then Brody's nurse for the remainder of the morning. Then Deedee got to bring him home after noon. I had to leave the Hospital at 5am to go to Germantown maryland that morning. So after 8 hours on the road I to am just about wiped out. Thanks to the entire staff at WVU hospitals who worked so wonderfully on Brody and all our friends and Family for the prayers and again.

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Short but Sweet

I will give you the short version tonight and update more tomorrow (and I haven't forgotten that I still owe you a blog about our most important things).

Wednesday was busy with taking Brody to the doc. He saw many peps and had a good day. He weighed 17lb 15oz still but was 26 3/4" long. His docs are all very proud of his progress.

Then...........the rest of the story.

Early this morning he went into SVT again. We were at the ER by 1:30am. In a room by 3:30am. And home by 1pm. Brody is doing just fine now. I will update tomorrow with all of the details, I am still sleepy from the long night. And I promise new pics tomorrow too.