Glad Everyone Enjoyed The Photo

While yesterday's photo certainly told the story of how Elias seems to be doing, it brought on a major sigh of relief from us. Overnight there were not many changes. They did decrease his fentanyl slightly and this morning gave him Ativan because he was slightly uncomfortable. He quickly went back to sleep after that. They are going to continue the Ativan PRN (as needed) to help him be more comfortable, but Elias will probably only need it once or twice a day...he is such a tough little man! They also started him on prevacid, a reflux medication. They are gradually increasing his feed volume through the g-tube, still with pedialyte, but they want to make sure as the volume increases his reflux doesn't get the better of him. They have not said yet when they will switch to breast milk. Ped Surgery rounded on him this morning and said the surgical sites are looking well. Today will probably be focused on increasing the feed volumes and more rest.
We are just thankful that the worst from this has passed with the positive results we are seeing. As I said in Saturday's post, Elias continues to amaze us. He is so strong, as well as having a lot of character, but as we watch him through the suffering and pain he is the one that pulls us through. Again, Katharine & I can not express our gratitude enough to all of you for your thoughts, prayers, calls, & emails. It certainly helped us to be as strong as Elias. Thankfully it is on with another day, each day stronger and one day closer to home.