Evening Update

Elijah has had a great day. He is doing very well today and has slept through most of it. He is extremely swollen, but hopefully has reached the peak. His eyes are swollen and his eyelids are "bugged" out. His forehead and incision look awesome, and it makes him look almost exactly like Andrew. He is also bruised all over his face. But his blood counts have kinda "bottomed" out it seems, so they feel like they won't have to do a transfusion. The big event for tomorrow is a head shampoo.... If all goes well, he might get out tomorrow afternoon. We shall see.

He has to be the luckiest boy on Earth. He has two wonderful brothers and a mother who gives so much of herself. We are all truly lucky and fortunate to have her. Poor Matthew cried when he saw Elijah this afternoon. It truly is a shock to see him. It really does not look anything like him from the nose up. But Tammy was playing with him this afternoon, and he was smiling. The same Eli we all know and love. God has truly blessed us again. And we are truly thankful.

We would also like to thank my Mom for coming with us and helping out so much. It allows us to all be together, but also allows the boys to enjoy their time in the pool and not at the hospital. We are blessed to have her as well. As well as all of our family!!!!

We will try to post in the morning, hopefully with more details as to the plan of release (hopefully)...

God Bless....