The Rollercoaster Continues...

Blake's numbers were really good yesterday afternoon and through the night. They woke him up yesterday and he was so excited and moving around so much that he had to be restrained. I think it was good for his parents to see him out of his lifeless trance. They had to put him back to sleep because he was so active that he was in danger of pulling out one of his 50 tubes...

This morning it looked like everything was on for the surgery at 10:30. That has changed again... They have found what his viruses are. He has H flu, and M cat. I do not know what they are, but the Dr's do, and they can focus their treatments on those issues now. The PICU Dr. decided that she was not comfortable doing the surgery until those other issues are taken care of so surgery SHOULD be on for tomorrow. We just do not know when because Wed. is not a usual surgery day.

I am sure that it is getting quite frustrating to say the least. Every time things look good it seems like we take a step back.

It was good to visit with everyone for the weekend. Aaron and I were working on the house Saturday and decided that we just needed to get down there, so we tied up what we were doing and hit the road and met up with Katie along the way. She was at a conference at ISU that day. We were able to go with Chad and Aleah to the zoo. We had a lot of fun with that. Us guys went to a movie one night and the gals went out to dinner, so we were able to do a few things to rest our minds. I am really glad that we just went down. If we kept waiting for them to tell us to come then we would never end up going. I think sometimes you just need to get in the car and go.

We bumped into a gal from our church in Rexburg on Sunday and saw her a few other times. Her little one was 4 weeks early and hasn't spent a day out of the hospital. Last week he was diagnosed with RSV and life flighted to Primary Children's. It was nice for both of us to see a familiar face and visit a little bit. We really do not know the family that well, but we have their other little boy in our nursery class.

One last thing. Becky's good friend, Tiffany, is working on setting up an account for people to donate money to help the Smiths. Chad is working on getting some leave donated, but has been on leave without pay for the last week and a half. I know that every little bit can help. I will keep you posted as this fund gets set up. Also, if anyone is reading this and could leave a comment for Chad and Becky I think they would really appreciate it. Thanks again for all the prayers and support.