New Surgeon

My parents brought Briana to come meet Nathan today. She was a little confused and I think over whelmed seeing me in the hospital. She was able to go into the NICU to see Nathan with Jon. My parents got to see him too, but the girls couldn't go in, they were not siblings and kids are not allowed in. It was so good to see my baby girl, I really missed her. Can't wait to go home to be with her and Nathan. Today we also got to meet with a new surgeon, Dr. Mark. Three words . . . . I Love Him! Really, he just gave me such peace. When we went to UofM we only got to speak and meet the nurse practitioner, but this surgeon took the time off of his weekend to come see Nathan on a Saturday, pretty special. He is so calm and peaceful too. He explained to us how he does surgeries, its a little different than from UofM. He also talked a little about a device called Latham, he used it instead of tapping. Its a lot to process, we are meeting with him here in the next few weeks, to get more information and get our questions answered. Still waiting on a few tests to be done on Nathan. He is due for his kidney ultrasound today and he is also getting circumcised before we take him home. We are also learning how to put the gavage tube in, how to measure it, how to tape and how to feed him with it. There are a lot of steps and placing the tube in his stomach is a little scary, because if you put it down the wrong tube it can go in his lungs and that can be a whole nightmare. So we have to be careful. We are doing our best to learn it so they nurses feel comfortable with us doing it so we can take Nathan home. Can't wait to get out of here!