one week

halloween dinner

it's been one week since the swap my boys are both doing great!!!! nick feels better and better everyday. he is here again hanging with me and owen tonight. they both just cant wipe the smile off their faces when they see each other. owen is still do amazing. so much better then they thought he would. today they had to take him back down to radiology and put him under sedation to have a port-a-cath put in. it is a little valve/button type thing that put under his skin on his chest connected to a vein that they will be able to use to draw his blood for labs when he goes home. he will be getting labs 3 times a week for the first month, then 2 times a week for the next 6 months, then once week, then down to once a month forever. this will make it so they dont have to look for a vein every time. sounds like a good idea and i'm sure i'll get used to it but today looking at this button thing in his chest was giving me the heebie geebies. :-/ so the word in the halls here is that if they can get owen off his IV fluids tomorrow and he continues to do well we could be going home wednesday. so we are keeping our fingers crossed that happens. :-)

standing up for the first time

in a wheelchair going down to radiology