Merry Christmas

As you all can imagine we had the best Christmas ever.  It was great to have Brodie home and Bradie loves his baby brother so much.  The only thing he can't handle is when someone calls Brodie a big boy.  He immediately corrects them and says that he is the big boy.  This was the first Christmas that Bradie has understood what was going on and he got everything that he wanted.  Brodie got to see family and went outside with his brother while he drove around his new car.  Having Brodie home has been great but also has brought on new challenges.  The nurses have been pretty good but having a stranger in your house for 18 hours a day is never easy.  It is great not having to drive to the hospital every morning.  Brodie has been doing so good latley and he is becoming more active.  His big issue right now is throwing up.  He has been throwing up about six times a day so last Wednesday we took him to the pediatrician.  He seemed like it wasn't a big concern but we just need to keep an eye on it.  It is tough when he throws up though.  It isn't real easy changing him, washing him down and cleaning the trach ties and gauze.  There have been very few other issues but we did have our first visit from the EMT's last night.  When LaVona was changing his diaper he got really mad and started turning blue for no reason.  I suctioned him and he continued to go down on his saturation and went down into the 50's. LaVona started to bag him and he started to come up but he was coughing up blood through his trach.  Our sister-in-law called 911 and the EMT's came soon after.  By the time they got there he was doing better but we decided to let them come take a look at him.  We are not sure what the blood is from but it stopped and there wasn't a whole lot of it.  Everything together just scared us and it is better to call them and not need them than to need them and not call.  We were in between nurses so it was all on us to get him back to where he needed to be.  LaVona did a great job and did not panic at all.  She just did what he needed and focused on getting him better.  I am going to post some pictures later so look for those soon.  It still amazes us every day that he his home and we are so blessed to have such amazing boys.  We hope that everyone had a great Christmas and has a Happy New Year.  I know that next year is going to be the best year of our lives.  This past year we have been through so much but are so thankful for where we are now.  We hope that each of you has a great year and we look forward to sharing Brodie's progress with you.  Thanks again for all of the support and prayers.