Day 62

It has been a few days since we've updated, so I'll try to catch you up. Since Gram has been here, we haven't stopped. I went to school for the last day of the year and got to be with my sweet class. They really were (are) so great. I missed them so much over the last couple of months. It was good for us to be back together again.

Kanyon has done OK over the last few days. He started having more "spells" where his heart rate and breath rate dropped. It started a little Friday, then got worse Saturday, so by Saturday night the Dr. ordered a work up to check for infections. They put him back up to 3 liters of oxygen (he'd been down to 2) and that helped instantly. His "spells" almost completely stopped. So, we were thinking that was all he needed, but as it turned out, he has ANOTHER urinary tract infection. So far that is the only culture to come back positive, so we're praying nothing else is positive. Obviously something is going on since this is the 2nd UTI he's had, so they are going to do a test in a week or 2 to make sure he doesn't have reflux in his bladder/kidney area. They started him on antibiotics as soon as they started the cultures, so he's already been on them for 24 hrs. Once the 48 hours is complete for the cultures and they get all the info about this infection growth, etc. and they will take him off whichever antibiotic he doesn't need and give him the one that will treat specifically that infection. I hate that this is happening again and may be something we have to deal with. I hate for him to have to be on medicine, though I'm glad they have it to help "fix" him. We pray that this infection clears quickly and that it doesn't slow him down too much. We also pray that they will figure out what is going on that could be causing this. We continue to pray for his head (which seems to be responding well to his temp. shunt) and are always praying for his lungs to grow strong. Just his whole body-inside and out- needs to be covered with prayer. He looked good today and was doing great tonight. So I'm glad he's not acting sick with all of this. He's still truckin' right along. Just keep those prayers going.

On a lighter note, Saturday Kanyon turned 2 months old!! We took his picture by his basketball like we did before. The problem is we couldn't get at the same angle since he's in a different bed, so it may not be an accurate angle. Oh well. Here he is!





This is his first bball picture taken just before his actual 1 month birthday

This is him on his 1 month birthday with that nasty ol' C-PAP thing

2 months that seems in some ways like 2 years and in other ways like 2 seconds. We are thankful for the blessings of the last 2 months. He's come so far! Thanks for coming with us!