maybe the last night in the hospital?

Athan has had a good afternoon. Ryan has become an expert at drawing, crushing, mixing, and giving meds this afternoon, as well as how to put in a feeding tube if he should need one. We made a quick trip to Nicholasville and got his birth certificate info sent off. And we got to carry the car seat upstairs! :) Athan has to spend at least 30 minutes (time of our trip home) in his car seat while keeping his oxygen steady before we can take him home. Oh - and one last test that Dr. Irene ordered showed that we can cut his dosage of his thyroid med (synthroid, which Ryan has been spelling correctly all along).

And assuming we get to go home tomorrow, we had to say goodbye to Kim (see pics below). I cried. I'm just so very grateful that she was Athan's primary nurse. She took such good care of him AND of us during a very, very tough time. It can't be easy, but she makes it look like the most natural thing in the world. If there happens to be some reason we have to stay until Friday, the ONLY good news would be that Kim is back on Friday.

I have no idea when we'll be able to post tomorrow. We may be busy with the discharge process all day. At this point, no news is good news! :0)