Sunday News!

Just as we were headed out the door to church this morning, Sabrina called with an update!  She spoke with the Cardiologist this morning, who reported that Zachary is doing very well post surgery!  She said in fact, tomorrow they will move him out of the PICU and into a room in the regular part of the hospital!  They started feeding him again with his feeding tube and he had just minimal drainage out of his chest tubes.  They will take the remaining two out tomorrow after they confirm that the draining has stopped.  He only has one main pic line in at this point and no other wires or I.V. lines!

I forgot to report on his hearing test earlier.  They tested him before surgery and he deferred on both ears.  That basically means neither ear was responsive to sound.  The specialist said that typically children with a bilateral clefts have some kind of hearing loss due to the fact that fluid builds up in the ear canal.  After he has had surgery to correct his palate, his hearing will not be so much of an issue but that's when language and speech intervention will be important due to him not being able to really hear very well the first year of his life. 

They will teach us how to put his feeding tube in before he's discharged so that we can do it at home.  He will more than likely have that until he's about a year old.

We have a houseful of excited kids that get to start school tomorrow!  We will be sure to post pics!!  :)