Good Morning everyone-I hope you’re having an enjoyable Sunday morning with your friends and family.  I am!  Today is a grand day: Early this morning, the granade was thrown!  The egg was cracked!  AKA-The 2nd to last tube was pulled out!!!  This is SOO exciting.  Kevin feels like a new man.

Also, I finally found a good way for the esophagostomy bag to stay on!!!  This last one stayed on for about 60 hours!!!  That is a record and just so awesome-that’s the amount of time it SHOULD be staying on (the last ones were averaging staying on just 12 hours).  We’re both very excited and praying the one I just replaced stays in this new, better position.

Another record from yesterday is that Kevin walked to the bathroom for the first time since we were at LGH!  This is such a huge accomplishment.  I imagine this week he’ll start walking around the halls-very exciting.

Last night, he had to get some more blood transfusions due to his red cell counts dropping again, but they didn’t plummet, and he’s still very stable.  Because of the transfusions, he didn’t get much sleep, so hopefully he can nap today.

Today looks like a great day-it’s nice and sunny-not a cloud in the sky.  My parents are coming to visit, and it should be a nice day.  Thanks for all your comments.

Continue to lift us up in your prayers, and praise God this morning for his blessings.