A Quick Eli Note

Posted in August 2009

All of Eli's chest tubes are gone. So now we get to hold him! HOORAY! And he has just one IV. It is awesome. He is just so much more comfortable and so much more happy. He actually smiled today! A lot at Matt, because Daddy just makes the funniest faces!

He will be transfered from the PICU to the SCU (surgical care unit) tomorrow if everything continues this well. We hope that means that we get to come home early next week. All considered everything is going great.

And every nurse and doctor are in love with Eli. He is known as the one with the long eyelashes. He is a beautiful baby.

The baby boy named Tucker is doing really well. I found out a bit more of their story:

They actually brought him home thinking he was a healthy baby boy, then three days later he was sweaty, fussy, unwilling to eat, and taking short-fast breaths. They rushed him to the Rexburg hospital just in time. It took 6 hours to stabilize him. They then boarded a plane and flew here to SLC. When they got to the PICU they were unsure if he was going to make it through the night. They said if they waited 30 more minutes to take him to the Rexburg hospital he would not have survived. He had his surgery yesterday, and is doing really well. The nurse yesterday kept saying that he was "a really really sick baby" when he got here. His heart defect deals with the left side of the heart (Eli's defect is in the right side). His aorta is really small and ill-developed, constricting the blood flow to the body (Eli's problem is too much blood flow to the lungs).