Day 3 Evening

Today was a pretty uneventful day which was great for us in many ways.  Tomorrow will be a big day since he will more than likely have his diaphragm repair surgery as long as things continue in the same direction.  We are not sure of the time because they have other things going on and if they have emergency surgery Brodie will have to wait his turn.  This is a tough surgery because he is on ECMO and they have him on blood thinners and other medicines that make it difficult.  He is moving a little bit and squeezed LaVona's hand today so she was very excited.  He is so cute and we just want to hold him.  It is so hard to have him so close but all we can do is hold his hand and we really should not do that for long.  We keep asking the same questions and keep getting the same answers but I guess we just keep asking in hopes that someone will tell us that he is going to make it.  He looks so good and his color is great.  It is hard for us to understand how he can look that good and be so sick.  Bradie came up here today and he is so excited to see his brother.  We asked him if he wanted to do a couple of different things when he got here and he said, "Where my baby brudah".  We are thinking around noon we will be able to post and let people know how the surgery went.  We are holding up well but as the ECMO guy told us in a week it will probably be a different story.  The doctor told us today that they are hoping if he continues to do well that maybe they can try to wean him off ECMO this weekend.  Please know that we want you to know these things but also hesitate to because with everything that is going on things could change at any minute.  Just a side note and nothing of real significance but for all you TV lovers, one of Brodie's doctors is Dr. Jennifer Arnold from the reality show "Little People".  Thanks so much for everything and we are truly humbled at how many people are visiting the blog to see how our Brodie is doing.  We know how much he is already loved by everyone and feel like we are all in this together.  We are so excited for the day when we get to post the title "Going Home".   By the way, his full name is Brodie Todd Dick.  LaVona won the middle name battle and it meant a lot for Brodie to have my name as his middle name.