April showers bring May flowers

April 8th was Raul's 25th birthday and May 5th Brody will be turning 1! So exciting! Here are some pictures, enjoy!

Pictures

Oh how I love my little man

Isn't he cute?

Oh did I mention he is getting pretty good at sitting by himself? He amazes me every day.

He had an appointment with the GI today and they think he might still be refluxing. They want another swallow feed done. And to think we thought the Nissen Fundoplication surgery would fix that...

Way Late Update :)

Brody did have his Nissen Fundoplication surgery December 18th. I was so nervous for it because of what happened last time he had something like this. But everything went great! They did surgery with a robot so they could do smaller incisions. They only had to make 5 little ones. After surgery in post-op he had a very high fever of 105 and they weren't sure why. But it did slowly go away. When he would wake up you could tell he was in so much pain by the way he cried, it was so sad!! We were in the hospital for 3 days.

I can say that it is so different having him not spit up everywhere and not burp. I kind of miss that he can't burp and I know he does because now he has gas pains from it. Things have changed for him for the better, we can now do tummy time! But things have also gotten harder, he is not a good sleeper at night because of his pains. And he's a bit more fussy. In the long run though everything will be better for him.

We had an amazing Thanksgiving/Christmas with the family! I absolutely loved it! And now we are on to the New Year and those resolutions that go along with it. One of mine is to blog more.. really I will try. But I also want to really work with Brody on hitting those milestones that he needs to. And of course lose weight.

Hospitalization #582

It wasn't really number 582 but it feels like it. So anyways we ended up not having surgery the day before Thanksgiving. We went to the main admitting area that we were supposed to go to before surgery and we let them know what we were there for and went and sat down. Ten minutes later the lady comes up to us and tells us that it was canceled and they had tried calling us before we got there but not to leave because the surgeon wanted to talk to us. We sat there for a half and hour and Dr.Curnow comes and talks to us and tells us why he had canceled it. He had been doing surgery for 36 straight hours and could hardly see straight, he didn't want to be doing such a complicated surgery in that state. Which was a good thing!

Brody had a cold for awhile and it got worse and he stopped eating so we took him into the doctors on the following Monday. They found out he had pnuemonia again(6th time) and was having a hard time breathing and wouldn't eat. He was admitted to the hospital at St. Alphonsus. AMAZING hospital!! We were there for a couple of days and then released. He is now on oxygen at night. He has surgery TOMORROW! Hopefully no cancellation because he really needs this surgery, we really don't want pnuemonia anymore.

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Blessing

Brody was blessed this last Saturday. It was a very sweet blessing! Here are some pictures of then and some other pictures. The one with the wrap like thing on his head are from his 72hour EEG. The lady who did it some how made it cut him all over and she also told us it was her first time. We were not so happy when we saw what his forehead and head looked like after she took it off. Now we know why he cried so bad the first day because she probably put it way to tight.

Also we went to the Pediatric surgeon to schedule surgery Monday, it was supposed to be this month. But he changed his mind again and said we will check up on him in 2 months. It's frustrating but his GI doctor will be talking to him(the surgeon) and hopefully we'll have the surgery sooner. He will eventually need it so we would like it ASAP so he can be out of pain and get his other hernia fixed. We also just found out about that one, I think he thought he told us about it. It is called a Hiatal Hernia. Anyway here are the pictures, enjoy!