Take Me Home Tonight!

So if you haven't heard the news yet...



WE ARE HOME!!!!

We were told by the doctor's that recovery from the surgery would take 6-8 weeks before we had the chance to go home. Right now I am sitting on our couch looking at our son 3 weeks to the day from when he had open heart surgery. It is amazing to think how far he has come in this time and how strong he is. David did great on the way home he loves his car seat once it is moving, I mean seriously he is out in no time.

Going into the house for the first time was very surreal and emotional when we really thought about it. The last time Nicole was in the house we had a huge breakdown in David's room, we had just heard the news that David had heart issues and were on our way up to Louisville. We had to take David's car seat out of the car to make room for the dogs and as we took it inside we went to David's room and all of a sudden the thought that there was a possibility that David would never make it into his room or car seat. Yet yesterday we go to do just that and we go to rock in his chair and we were woken up in the middle of the night by his cries and all that other good stuff. In fact I am writing in a near trance and I couldn't love it more.

So on the going forward side we have to give him 5 different medicines a day and has to be on a machine that measures his oxygen levels as well as his pulse for a good portion of the day and we have to go back to the doctor here soon to start preparing for the next surgery but all of that is so far out of our mind because all we do is look at him and realize how amazingly lucky we are. We "fight" over who wakes up to feed him and care for him, leaving to go somewhere is usually done as quickly as possible as to not be away from him. It's just so amazing to be able to be nesting into our home.

Once again I would like to say thank you, thank you for your prayers and support, thank you for the love you have given to us and especially the love you have given to David who the majority of you have never met or seen in person. Hopefully going forward, as we move this horribly crappy state of weather and cold and flu season, more of you will get to meet this incredible and loving little dude that has lightened up our lives in such an amazing way. Also if you are a nurse of any kind let me just say thank you. Our NICU and PICU nurses and doctor's both have been so amazing to us and to David, literally they saved his life and allowed God to use them to minister and help in the healing of us. I have learned/am learning so much about myself as a father, husband, Christian, Pastor through this process and I can't wait to start living that out. So the sun shined brighter today, waking up at 5:30 was not a problem because love was very present then and as The Beatles say..."All You Need is Love"! Love all of you thank you again!

-D

Oh also blogger is being weird and only allowed the one pic but please check out some of the extra pics on facebook if we are friends.