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Benjamin has been home a little over a week now and I am very happy to say that he is doing well. He saw his pediatrician today to follow up and his lungs are sounding very clear. We are so thankful for that. He is still on the 2 medications from the drug withdrawl that…

After 11 long days at Riley, we are so thankful to be home! We can finally close this chapter and being a new happier and healthier one. I still can’t believe that we were there as long as we were and all of the things that happened. I remember feeling a similar sigh of relief…

Today has been a good but very busy day! On rounds this morning, they made a plan to start decreasing one of Benjamin’s 2 meds that he is on for the withdrawl. We are going from 6 times a day to 3 and if he tolerates that (which he did today so far) then the…

First off, Happy Birthday to David today!!! We are going to celebrate together later when he brings Andrew to the hospital. It has been a week since Andrew was here to visit Benjamin and a lot has happened. It will be fun to have the boys together to interact and I think Andrew will really…

Today has been a busy and a good day so far. Benjamin was moved off of the PICU this afternoon! They wanted to do it yesterday, but his awesome nurse Emily pushed for him to stay another night because of the seizure that he had. We were very grateful that she did that. It gave…