Friday

The last day we've had some good steps forward, and a step or two back. That's to be expected, I'm sure. The steps forward are that Little Buddy is out of the ICU and has been moved to the Neuroscience Trauma Unit (NTU). He is completely off of oxygen and is doing all breathing on his own, with good saturation levels. His blood pressure remains constant without any medications. We have the official word on his MRI, and it has been confirmed that they got all of the tumor in surgery and that none of it spread down his spine. All very wonderful things! We are still waiting to hear from Oncology about where we go from here, but he still has a lot of recovering to do before we can even think about Chemotherapy. The steps back are that Little Buddy is running an almost constant temperature, and that he is also less responsive than he was. He has very minimal movements, purposeful or otherwise, and isn't responding to commands. This is worrisome because the longer he goes without showing signs of responsiveness the more the likely it is that he perhaps never will. But our Little Buddy has already beaten every odd, so we are very hopeful that he will do it this time, too. He is much better than he was, but he is still a very sick little boy and has a long, long way to go. Please continue to keep him in your prayers!