Today was a huge milestone! Brendan has been home one whole week, it sure has flown by. It is a big deal to us that he has been doing so well, we were told that 80% of kids that leave the cardiac ICU return in less than a week’s time. Most of them come back in the first 24 hours. Not Brendan!!

It was quite a long day. Brendan had some great happy time, but he is also battling withdrawal effects as we slowly wean off medication. Trevor had some happy time, but he is battling his teeth and he just yelled, screamed, and kicked the day away.

Brendan woke up hanging on to the monkey tail.

He had a ton of play time while Trevor had his morning routine

We got out the sling today and elevated him up in the middle of the room so he could get out of bed and be part of the action!

Trevor was able to join him too!

Brendan does need to work on his leg strength, so he needed something to kick

Brendan loves his brother!!

Tornado Trevor was such trouble today, we had to sit him in the corner!

He was hilarious in the corner

Trevor does this continuous yelling, unless you keep him highly entertained. He did not take kindly to being told his video would be published!

Even though we scrambled and worked hard all day, the boys are both doing very well. We are so grateful that Brendan has continued to improve. We couldn’t do it alone. Brendan has a great night nurse that allows us to get sleep. She takes good care of him. And Gramma keeps Trevor so well cared for, we don’t have to stress about him at all. He is putting her to the test lately!
I can’t wait until I can write about another week of progress sailing by!