Sunday, August 5, 2012

We are home!

Thank you again for all your prayers.

Simeon is eating great and getting chubby before our eyes.  (although, it might be the fluids they pumped into him at this point)  I am supplementing my breastmilk with formula and feeding him every 3 hours.
We will have a nurse coming daily to weigh him for the next 2 weeks, and then every other day after that and hopefully then weekly after that.  Weekly pediatrition appts and an appointment with his Urologist on September 5th.  He'll need some extra tests done that week, loooong tests, including one I hate, where they strap him to a table and insert dye into him and watch where the obstruction is in his ureter.  That test takes 50 minutes and he looks at me, screaming, like "why won't you pick me up mama?"

I think his urinary tract infection was probably there for quite a while, as today he has been laughing, giggling and smiling like crazy!!  He has never been a very smily baby.  Poor baby.  Who knows how long he's been feeling crappy.  Hopefully this is it, a blessing in disguise!

The nurses were wonderful, we even got to see some of the same ones we had when we were there in May for his lip surgery. 

We also found out he is anemic and so are supplementing with iron---yuck--He hates that bottle, drinks it sloooooowly...

Thank you again for your prayers, they mean the world to us. 
I'll try to post pictures later this week!

19 comments:

  1. So glad to hear that things are going better for your little guy! He will remain in my prayers! Hope the week ahead is a good one for your family.

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  2. So glad you are home and everyone is smiling!!!

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  3. I'm so glad you brought a happy, chubby boy home! Your reward for good behavior. Will continue to keep you in prayer.

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  4. Such great news! I am still praying-

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  5. So happy all is going well with your sweetie little Sim! Continued prayers for all...

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  6. Praise God that you are home! I am so happy that he is doing better.

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  7. So glad you're home! I pray the tests go as well as can be. My mantra was always, "It could be worse" during my oldest's medically strange and challenging year. And that's true even if the tears are still hard to deal with.

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  8. I love it when you post these good reports. Hope this will be a wonderful week and everything goes just like you want it too. God is sooooo good.
    Hugs,
    Odie

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  9. I haven't made it around blog world as much as I'd like....praying all is going to be better for your sweet boy and you! :)

    Many blessings!

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  10. SMILING here also. So glad to hear you are home...there is no place like home...and he is happy again.
    Happy Eating Sims!

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  11. Yay!!' so glad he's doing better!!

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  12. thank goodness (and God!!) I'm keeping S and you in my novena.

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  13. Wonderful news! You'll all be in continued prayers.

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  14. Oh my goodness, Jamie...I'm so sorry I'm visiting after-the-fact with all you've been through. I've been away from blogging a bit. I will be praying for full recovery and happiness for little Sim and all of you:) God Bless you with peace.

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  15. Just now getting caught up on the happenings around your house! The last time I popped in you were just posting a hospital update! So very scary and so glad that your little guy is on the mend! I'll be saying prayers for all of you.

    Val

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  16. I've been adding Simeon to my rosary intentions over here, Jamie. So glad and thankful to hear he's doing better.

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  17. Our Possible was always a very grabby baby. We all thought she just had a rotten personallity (but we loved her to death!) we just thought she was a cranky person. Then when she was 6 we learned that she had a very rare congenital heart condition. Talk about a guilty mom. I realized that all those times I looked at her and said, "PLEASE just STOP crying", or "can't you just be still for five minutes without me holding you?" . Then to find out we needed to be thankful that she was not quiet. As bad as her heart was if she had been quiet she might not have been still with us. I am now so thankful for all those tears. If I had only known, though. It took me years to forgive myself for not realizing it was her heart sooner. I had failed to be her advocate instead I questioned her. So wrong of me. I hear that regret in your writing. I hope I am wrong. Please don't beat yourself up about him not being a smiley baby. You can see his joy in his eyes and sometimes you catch it so well in pictures that I feel like I know him. Stay strong and know that you are a great mom. I wish I was as strong as you!

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  18. Wow, poor little Sim! So happy that he is feeling better and giggling and smiling. He must feel so much better! He's always in my prayers and will continue to pray for him and your beautiful family!

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