We are home & Carson is back at it!

Surgery went well and we actually got to come back home last Friday. It was a long few days but was so nice (as always) to be back home. While Carson is still healing and there is some swelling...he is back to acting like his normal, happy, active self! Thank you for the many, many prayers!

So, on the surgery...the doctors felt confident in the surgery and said they were able to do all that they were hoping but time will tell because there was a lot of swelling (to be expected). We will have to wait for the swelling to resolve before the true results are seen. Great news...no stent was needed! So Carson is able to talk and we won't have to make any follow up trips to have the stent removed, etc. Actually, we won't go back for three months (and actually the next date is already set, Cinco de Mayo). The plan...in three months, have another scope and trial capping (plugging his trach) day and night for 48 hours. If that goes well, cap day and night for a couple months and then decannulate in July/August!!! Only scheduling hiccup...the latest that our next baby will be here is May 22nd (17 days after that May 5th appointment). But...we know that God has everything already planned out, so leaving all the details in his capable hands.

Carson did well with the surgery, as he gets older, he seems to get a little more nervous but he handled it all pretty well. There was a fair amount of pain initially when he coughed or moved his head (they had to make an incision on the left side of his neck) but that seemed to improve after a day or two also. Carson is truly our hero....he takes the cards he's dealt in stride and just keeps on going!

One of the verses in Jesus Calling, the day of his surgery, is one of my favorites and is just so true regarding Carson. He does it without knowing it but by just being him.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrew 12:1-2

This was one of his first smiles after surgery : ) Precious, precious boy (with his bunny he got in pre op)!

Thank you again for the many prayers that have been said and will be said for Carson and our family. There are many details in the coming months with [hopefully] the last of Carson's surgeries before his trach can come out, for timing of our next precious boy's birth, with Kindergarten summer school (May-June), and the beginning of Kindergarten in August but I'm so thankful for the many answered prayers already!