Hello world! This blog is being setup so everyone can keep track of updates on Christopher and on our family. Like so many things, I (Andy) was planning on taking lots of time to set this up and making it perfect before our baby came. And, like with so many other things, we're making due with the time we have. =)
Christopher had a rough morning today. He started coughing at about 5:30 and did so hard enough to rupture one of his lungs. This gave him air in his chest cavity, which made it hard for him to breathe. The doctors put a chest tube in and are leaving it in to suck the air out, which is making things much more comfortable for him. Here's how I look at it: Christopher's muscles are so strong that his lungs couldn't keep up for now. But they will.
He started drinking breast milk earlier today, but they had to cut him off after the lung incident. They should be starting him back on food by now, which is good news. We need this boy to fatten up (I'm going to give him a complex, I'm sure)!
Rachel is doing well, although time at home without our baby is continuing to be difficult. She's healing physically very quickly, and may even be able to finish part of her last semester of nursing school. We're grateful for the help that Rachel's mom has been giving us by staying with us this week...it really makes things easier.
We have been blessed with so many amazing people in our lives that want to do so much to help us. We're working on putting together a list that we'll have up here and send an email of things that would be nice to have to help us through these next weeks of constant commuting. Stay tuned.
I went back to work today and was really blessed to find out that my coworkers have literally done my job for me for the rest of this week. What a great bunch of people! Please visit this site often, we'll try to update it daily. And again, thank you to everyone for your wonderful support! You are all making the difference between this being unbearable versus something that we shoulder together. We are so blessed!
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