Sunday & Monday Morning

Little Buddy has had a couple of good days.  We were concerned that he wasn't being able to empty his bladder by himself, so his dad and grandpa gave him a blessing yesterday morning.  Within hours Little Buddy was emptying his bladder and hasn't stopped since.  In fact, we are cruising through Pull-Ups like they are going out of style!  The power of the priesthood is so real, and we are incredibly thankful for it!  The next hurdle is to get Little Buddy to start swollowing on his own again.

He has also made progress in that his drain in his head (EVD tube) has been clamped to see if his body will be able to process his cerebralspinal fluid on its own.  He will get a CT scan tomorrow to see if there is too much liquid in his head.  If so, they will either open the tube again, or talk about putting in a permanent shunt.  If things look fine then he will get his tube out.

Little Buddy also got to go into the therapy gym for the first time this morning, and he did great!  He is working so hard to get his body to start responding to him.  Of course, he smiled and laughed through the whole therpay session. :)

Our Little Buddy continues to win hearts.  One of the residents that has been working with him has been rotated to a new area.  She isn't in charge of our little guy anymore, but she still came by today to see how he is doing.  She said that she left a note asking the next resident to take good care of her patients, and she put on the note, "Especially 'Little Buddy'" but then she didn't want any of the other parents to get offended in case they saw it, so she erased it.  But she said, "I still feel that way, though!"