Thankful For Drew!

Today was our first Thanksgiving with our son Drew. We took a picture with a steralized baseball next to his head today so that everyone could see his size in comparison. He had a rollercoaster day. At times he was doing a great job with his oxygen saturation levels but as soon as we thought he was improving his lungs would start to struggle again. They took a couple of chest x-rays to help see why he is experiencing such dramatic peaks and valleys. Each x-ray basically showed that a large portion of his lungs are either full of fluid or they are collapsed and are not able to oxygenate the blood. They are trying different ventilators (breathing machines) and are trying different positions to see if they can stabilize his lungs better. The one certain diagnosis is that his lungs are extremely under developed which is due to his prematurity. Tomorrow they have scheduled to take a heart echo (scan) as well as a head ultra sound. This will let us know if the PDA in his heart has closed off and the head ultra sound will give us a better understaning of the intraventriculr hemorrhage (brain bleed) that they noticed earlier this week. On this Thanksgiving we realize how blessed we are and we have so much to be thankful for. We are so grateful for our wonderful son Drew! We love him so so much and continue to pray for his well being.