A Good Weekend

Since wireless at RMH hasn't been reliable we weren't able to update the blog yesterday.  We had a good weekend though.

On Saturday morning Grandma and Grandpa Goolden had breakfast with Mom and then headed back to NY.  The Britton's visited on Saturday and helped bring up our second vehicle.  This will make things much easier if Dad goes back to coach another game.  It was especially nice for Mom to visit with Sabrina in person and get some advice from another new mom.  Thanks for visiting guys - and thanks to Sabrina's dad and step mom for watching Gianna so they could visit, and for treating the four of us to lunch!

Since Trey continued to be 'stuck' on the ventillator the doctors gave him an antacid medication on Saturday afternoon to prepare his stomache for steroid treatments which started at 12 am Sunday morning.  He responded well to the first two treatments and by Sunday afternoon they were able to adjust the ventillator settings and turn down his oxygen.  So far so good!  Hopefully the next two days will bring about huge improvements to his lungs - everyone just keep praying for our little guy!  In addition, they have been able to decrease the amount of pain killer he is receiving.  They can no longer adjust the IV medication any lower, so he will transition to an oral pain medication within the next couple of days.  This is great news - soon he should be tube and IV free!

Little Stella also continues to do well.  She tried her first bottle with Daddy today and although she is not strong enough to feed much, she is trying and did make some progress today in the feeding area.  She is always a happy girl, but she continues to be very very sleepy.  In the next two weeks her biggest goals will be to establish sleeping patterns where she is awake more during the day, and to begin taking feeds through a bottle rather than her feeding tube.

We had a nice lunch out today at a Mexican Restaurant in Williston, and Dad watched some football for the first time in weeks.  It felt good to do something which seemed normal for a Sunday to us.