First off, Luke is doing very well. As of yesterday, the doctors were able to move him one step closer to being off of his oxygen completely. Right now he is just on a type of straight air canula that doesn't give any liter flow (pressure) and instead is just a very small amount of oxygen. They also tried giving him a bottle feeding for the first time, just as a test. It was only 8ML's of milk and he took about 5ML's of it, so that seems to be a good sign. Early this week he will be evaluated by the specialists who will check on his ability to swallow and other developmental progress. If they give their "stamp of approval", that means they will continue to attempt bottle feedings and supplement whatever he doesn't take from a bottle with the feeding tube.
It was really great to see him doing so well after being in California for work all week and not getting to see him at all. We had a busy visit with him on Saturday along with Luke's Grandma "Swannie" and Auntie Amber who got to see him through the visiting door.
We have a meeting with his doctor on Tuesday so we should be getting a full progress report on him and possibly even a tentative release date. We're pretty sure he has a few weeks left there, but we're starting to feel like we're entering the home stretch. As always, we'll keep you all posted.
Lastly, we wanted to just thank everyone who came out to the benefit that a few of our friends put together for us at Jets Saturday night. It was really incredible and we hope everyone had as great of a time as we did.
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