Moving in the right direction

I think it is time for some new clothes!

Today was a good day for Mason. We are incredibly thankful! He was extubated and is currently on 2 liters of nasal cannula and doing well. They are continuing on his current antibiotics and the CSF came back negative today! Good news and so very thankful! The plan is to take two more samples (one today and one tomorrow) and if they come back negative then we should be good to go). Antibiotic treatment will continue for a course of 3 weeks. Mason's stomach is still swollen (not as bad as it WAS but still a little puffy) so they are working on getting the edema down by giving him albumin and following it with lasix. He is also having some output in his replogle but you can hear bowel sounds. So we are hoping to get some swelling down and have a bowel movement so that he can start feeds back. Mason's platelets had dropped to 82 and they should start stabilizing since the infection is clearing. They are checking tomorrow so I hope and pray they increase instead of decrease. Other than that he is doing great. He was bright eyed right after extubation and he woke up this afternoon so I could take a peak. We are trying him again in open bed to see if he is well enough to handle it so we got to put him in clothes (or stuff him in clothes). Some of them are a little tight! We are so thankful for some good days. Mason is moving in the right direction and we pray that this will continue. The plan is for him to receive shunt surgery in 2 weeks if the infection continues to clear. We thank you all so much for your continued prayers and time and love invested in our family and for our sweet boy. It hasn't been an easy road by far but we pray that Mason will continue to be healed and grow stronger.

Psalm 126:5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.