Brady Update, Day 15

Welcome to week three, ladies and gentlemen!

We are praising God today that Brady is his boisterous, happy self! He is so engaging with everyone around him... So much so that multiple female caregivers have claimed him as their boyfriend! What a flirt!

We are waiting for Brady to respond well to coming off his oxygen. Right now he is on 1/2 a liter of oxygen, and every time they try to wean him down off of it (there isn't a smaller increment they can decrease to first) his blood-oxygen level goes down to about 88-89. We need to be at 92 consistently.  Hopefully that will just come with time, and we can go home soon.

The rooms that we were staying in at the hospital are kept for short-stay situations, and so Saturday night was our last night at the hospital.  I am now staying at my parent's house, which is a 15 minute drive, and Brad is going back and forth from his school & our home.  It was hard to leave Brady that first night, but it's just so much better to be somewhere where it's not so sterile and cold, and where we don't have to eat take out.

Please pray for energy for Brad, as he is working, coaching and getting in to see Brady.  Please pray for sanity for me, because I am just not used to being un-scheduled for so long!  I am definitely learning what it means to listen for what God is saying, because I don't have anything else to do!  Obviously not the best way to come around to that lifestyle, but God has a funny way of teaching us in every situation, if we are willing.

You all should know that we have been blessed by your prayers, words and gestures.  I know that my previous post could have been misleading, but it was meant to show the providence of God in our situation.  So please don't worry about us, just keep praying!  We are reminded daily about how great our God is, and He remains the calm in our little storm.