Our Little Fighter

Hey everyone. I got sent home by Mom. She said that I looked scary and needed to take a shower:) So I will take the time to make a little update. Mandy has requested pictures of Cole. So don't think of me as morbid :) He looks pretty swollen and kind of scary, but underneath all of that stuff he's still our same little cutie. All of the nurses have fallen in love with him! He is doing better today. Most likely they will take the breathing tube out this evening. The PICU team is great. It is so wonderful to have my cousin Alissa, who is a doctor, on our side. Everyone at Primary Children's already loves her (who wouldn't?)! She recently finished her residency there and she has been great to "translate" everything for us. They made Cole this poster, we thought that was nice, and they really try hard to make things comfortable. Unfortunately we got kicked out of our private room around midnight last night. We will most likely stay in the PICU again tonight but hope to be moved to the regular floor sometime tomorrow. You can send us text messages, but we can't use our phones on the unit. Cole is really strong and the second his sedation starts to wear off he's kicking and trying to pull his tubes out (wouldn't you?). It gives us hope that his recovery will be fast. His name is in temples from Florida to California and we know that we have a lot of people praying for us.
So far all of the tests they have done have come back normal. They unfortunately have to poke him every two hours to check his sodium and he REALLY hates that! He'll have an MRI sometime late this afternoon, but so far everything else is looking good. We love everyone and thank you for your support.