Go Davis!

This is a (blurry) picture of Davis' new bed mate. Catherine and Karen brought Puff the Magic Dragon to watch over our little one. Puff was my favorite as a little girl, and so far the magic seems to be working.

Davis' x-rays continue to look better and better. His good lung looks GREAT, and the other is getting larger and stronger every day. In fact, it's starting to move the intestines out of the way as it inflates! The radiologist who read his x-ray from this morning hadn't seen Davis before, and he had to ask what was wrong with him. When Lakshmi told him Davis was CDH, the radiologist was surprised. He said it must be a mild case, just a small defect. Of course, that's not the case, but the fact that the radiologist had to ask blew us away. GO DAVIS! 

We've had an overall good day, with a few ups and downs on the vent & oxygen settings. They'll make some changes, Davis will react, and he'll end up compromising with the doctors somewhere in the middle. We keep moving forward in this way... and then back, and then forward again, and so on... we know that as they push Davis more and more, we can expect things to get a little rocky here and there. Still, as long as in the big picture we're moving forward, we are happy. 

It's amazing how strong Davis is, and he's not even a week old. A big part of it is all the people thinking about him and sending him love and prayers. Thank you :)

-Carolyn