Granny (Ashley’s Mom) and BobBob bought Owen a look out tower for his bday.  He’s now learning how not to step off edges and how to slide, sorta…ha. 

(slide video coming, having technical difficulties and its past my bed time)

This is him dancing to his toy that plays music: 

Now he’s boogie-ing to Rihanna!

Some shots of O from the Ranch.

Hello All!
I haven’t posted since Owen left the hospital and I’m so sorry, but you should take that to be a good sign– remember no news is good news!

And GOOD NEWS IT IS! He is doing SO WELL! Even his pulmonologist said he sounds like a new kid! It’s amazing! He has been well with no cough, no congestion, no nothing for over a month now!!!

We are still doing breathing treatments, but only twice a day, he’s on an acid reflux med and we are starting to wean him off his liquid thickener. Yay!

AND! Friday is his FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

I’m working on uploading some new videos and pictures now so stay tuned…

Owen gets to go home today!! We have more blood work and xrays to do before we get to go, plus it always takes forever to get discharged…But WE ARE GOING HOME!! His lungs are sounding much better according to the doctor and now that we have breathing treatments and antibiotics that are working he feels comfortable letting us go home to do them.

Thanks to everyone for all your well wishes! Come by and visit — but only if you’re well. Owen can’t go to daycare for about a month — he has to get fully well before he can go back. So our Stay at Home Daddy is going to need some visitors and babysitters.

Love you all!

Thank you for all your well wishes for Owen. I thought I would post a quick update while he was napping on his dad (I am finally able to email at the hospital).

He has some sort of virus that they can’t put a name to – which means its none of the biggies (flus, RSV, pnemonia…) which is good. But since its a virus its not treatable by medicine, which is bad. So like a cold it just has to work its way out and all they can do it support him while it does its thing.

His main problem is that his oxygen saturation levels (amount of oxygen in his blood) keep dropping way below normal the normal 100-96 range into the 80s, especially while he sleeps. Super scary! So he’s been on oxygen (little tubes in his nose) since we’ve been here. They take him off peridodically to see how he’ll do without it and he dips into the 80s again. So we’ve been here all week and are scheduled for another night tonight.

Please keep him and us in your thoughts and prayers as we work to get him healthy. I wish we could have visitors but due to flu season they are only allowing 2 people per patient in. Very frustrating for us and the grandmas! Hope all is well and I will talk to you soon.

Ashley

Owen is figuring out this whole walking thing quickly. Here he is walking from the ottoman to the coffee table!

Here are a couple of more videos of Owen.

Go to my shutterfly share site and see some new pics of O from this summer. He’s been fun but had lots of ear infections. He had to have tubes put in his ears this morning but seems to be handling that very well. Hope all is well!! Love to all!

http://ashleychrisbrundage.shutterfly.com/