Home away from Home

Well, we're back at the hospital as of last night. On Tuesday and into Wednesday Elijah started acting differently than normal, not feeding as well and breathing very hard. We took him to our pediatrician yesterday in Shakopee and they sent us back to Children's Hospital to get him checked out.
He's not sick (thankfully) but he was experiencing some Congestive Heart Failure. In short, his lungs were actually getting too much blood flow causing him and his heart to have to work harder. As a result of the labored breathing he wasn't able to eat as well and was quite a bit more irritable.
The good news is that this is a common issue that comes up in kids with his condition. To treat it the Dr's have raised his dose of Lasix (which helps the body get rid of excess fluids) and we've already seen a drastic improvement. His last couple feedings have been very good and it seems like our sweet ol Elijah is back to his normal self.
He'll be kept one more night just to make sure that things are back on the right track.

It was a stressful afternoon/evening but we are feeling good today about his progress. Hopefully we'll even be able to take out his feeding tube when we go home tomorrow (which would help him even more since he wouldn't have one nostril essentially plugged).

The little guy defintely likes to keep Ma and Pa on their toes!

Thanks for all your prayers and support, we are truly amazed, blessed and more grateful than we could ever express for all the help we've received. Even the hospital staff comments on what great friends/family we have supporting us. Thank you all so much.