Sunday, November 27th

Will has had a great weekend. Josh & I got to hold him for the 2nd time ever yesterday!! It was a very special day... Will smiled for the 1st time when I held him. It was the most amazing moment.

He is also on his lowest ventilator setting, but they aren't going to "sprint" him again until after his shunt surgery. His surgery will be either Tuesday or Wednesday... we will find out tomorrow for sure when it will be scheduled.

Once he has recovered from surgery they will do his sprints and then try to remove the breathing tube to see if he can breathe on his own.

Will had both his central line and umbilical line removed this weekend. The umbilical line was removed because Vandy docs don't like them in for a long period of time because of the risk of infection and clots. They did put in an IV in his foot that they use to draw blood and to give him any meds that he can't take orally.

Will's feedings are going well... his up from 10 cc's an hour to 15 cc's, and his calories have gone up from 22 to 30.