Another surgery...

As you know, Zachary went into surgery last weekend to have his shunt revised. Against my better judgement, I went ahead and took him home on the doctors orders. Yesterday morning after a feeding, Zachary started to choke and I called 911 to take him to the hospital. When they assessed him, they told me I had waited too long to bring him into the hospital and that his shunt was not working properly and he needed immediate surgery. They took him into surgery yesterday afternoon and he did beautifully! I can definitely tell a difference this time. One of the signs that the shunt isn't working properly is that his eyes will look downward consistently. Now after the surgery, I can see his beautiful eyes and he just looks so much healthier. He now has two shunts. One on the left, and one on the right. We are so thankful that the Lord can speak wisdom into us and next time, I'm not going to ingnore it. Thank you all for your continued prayers for Zachary and his health!

Long time coming....

Well as you can see it has been a tremendously long time since we have posted on here! There has been a lot going on since little Zachary came home! First off, we have finally gotten home to Tennessee and are in the process of buying our first home! Also, after being home for a week, I measured Zachary's head circumference and it was up 2.5 cm in one week. They told me to keep a close eye on that and that it shouldn't be more than 2 a week. Well, I thought I was being over paranoid so I went ahead and took him to the E.R. at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital to get him checked out. Turns out my motherly instinct was right on! They took him into surgery the very next morning to fix his shunt cause it had malfunctioned! He recovered beautifully but is still having some pain. He is getting so big! He now weighs 10 pounds 2 ounces! Camden has been such a wonderful big brother! He is constantly on passy duty if Zachary starts to get upset! He says he loves being a big brother! We are truly blessed and are happy we can start to move forward with our lives as a family! Love to all!

Going home!

July 4, 2008

ZACHARY IS HOME!!!!

We are so very excited! We were able to "room in" with him last night to make sure that we could handle taking care of him on our own and everything went fantastic! He was dis-charged at noon today and we have been having a wonderful afternoon with him! We all took an afternoon nap together on the big bed and it was so wonderful! Thank you Thank you THANK YOU for all of your prayers and encouragement! We look at Zachary and see the Lord! Our heavenly Father has been so great to us and it is all due to him! Bless you all!

June 30, 2008

We would like to ask for some special prayers this week. The doctors are doing a head and chest ultrasound this week on Zachary to make sure that everything looks good. If it does, and he starts to gain weight, we are going to do a room-in with him on thursday night to have a trial run through the night with just us to take care of him! AHHH! :) If he does well that night then we will be able to bring him home on Friday!! It may seem selfish, but we need prayers to have this go well so that he can be home with us this week! We will keep you updated! Thanks!

June 28, 2008

It looks like Zachary's stay in the hospital is coming to an end soon!!! The doctor told me on thursday that he sees him going home mid-late next week!!!! We are so excited and hope that this is true! He just has to continue eating well and handling himself without oxygen. He is doing great so far! Right now he only needs the oxygen here and there when he is eating from a bottle. As it stands right now, he won't need to come home on any monitors or oxygen! GOD IS GOOD!! We know that if it wasn't for him, Zachary may have not made it this far. Thank you once again for all of your continued prayers! Lets remember to also thank God for the wonderful miracle we have seen through Zachary!

June 25, 2008

It has been an exciting 24 hours! Zachary is completely off of the oxygen!!! Its so nice to see an almost clean face! He still has the NG tube for those times that he's too tired to eat. He is nursing 6 out of 8 feeds and has to learn to take the other two feeds out of a bottle so that he can come home!! The doctors want him eating at least two bottles a day with a calorie supplement so that he can continue to gain weight. We are all so very anxious to get him home! Please continue to pray peace over us in the last couple of weeks as we are ready to STEAL him away!