Ohh noooo!!

Posted on September 2, 2011 by William 15 Comments

The house is a mess!

Oh you didn’t think that something bad happened did you? 😛 Dirty trick, sorry. Guess what?!?! As I am sure you gathered from the messy house. WE’RE HOME!!!

Since Evan’s Broviac removal, echo, EKG, and boy surgery went so well and were done so early yesterday they decided to let us go home on Thursday instead of Friday! We’re very happy to be home but we’re exhausted from the long day of packing, moving, unpacking, and getting in our last minute visits with as many people as we could find. I can’t even explain the emotions we were feeling today, it was insane. Very excited and happy to finally be going home. Sad that we were leaving our heart families and caretakers. Nervous about what the next several months is going to bring. And more powerful than any of those… shear elation that everything went well and we were able to go home with our hands full and not empty. Too many parents are not as fortunate as we have been. We finally got home at about 8PM, enjoyed some delicious Pizza King, and started getting settled in. Mr. Evan started to get cranky and we realized that we didn’t get any baby tylenol from the hospital for pain, so I had to take a trip to Meijer at 10pm. What? Well yes, of course I took Evan, are you kidding me? And look what he spotted…

We wanted to get pictures of Evan with as many people that took care of him or were directly involved in his care as we could, too bad we thought of it the day before we left. We missed several people, 🙁 . You’ll see many faces in the gallery below. I can’t say enough good things about the people at Mott Children’s Hospital. I couldn’t even thank them without turning into a blubbering mess of emotion. Not that there’s any way to adequately thank someone for saving the life of your child. Everyone there just loves our little guy and you should have seen them light up when they heard he was going home. Wonderful, wonderful people. We’ll be seeing them again in 4-6 months for surgery #2, the hemi-Fontan.

Going home outfit provided by Barb VanEseltine all the way from Thailand. Thanks Barb!

Enjoy the pictures! Be sure to look at page 2 and 3 of the pictures as well.