Toby's First Trip! Three Months Home Today!

Toby is doing pretty well. He's had a larger amount of secretions, and since Garrett has a cold, we have been giving him a medication to help keep his lungs clear. They increased his food again today because he isn't gaining as much weight as he should. He weighs about 13 lbs. 6 ounces now. He has been drooling a lot, and still running a slight temperature, which we are attributing to teeth coming in. He's almost 6 months old, and I just cannot believe it. We have been home from the hospital 3 months today!

As we get ready to leave we would ask you to pray for these few requests: 1. That Toby doesn't get a cold or sick before we leave for Michigan or while we are there. 2. That preparations would go well, we have a lot to pack in order to leave. 3. The trip would go smoothly and that Toby would tolerate it well. He hasn't ever traveled more than 20 minutes anywhere, so this will be a huge distance. Plus, I heard the construction on I-75 getting into Michigan is a bear, so hopefully the trip will take the least amount of time as possible.

We are so excited to take a trip to see all of my extended family and friends. On Sunday, July 1st at 10:00 a.m. I will be giving a testimony, singing, and showing a slide show of Toby to the church I grew up in. It's at Bible Baptist Church in Birch Run, Michigan. I am excited and nervous, praying that God will speak through me and receive all the glory for His faithfulness in our journey with Toby.

Friday we go to see a Gastroenterologist to check on his belly with the issue he was having with gas in his intestines, and also to establish a relationship should we need to see this type of doctor in the future. His belly has been doing very well with the new formula. Toby's g-tube site and NOW his trach site has granulation tissue around it, and has been bleeding, so we are fervently praying for this to resolve also. We will see the ENT Nurse Practitioner on Friday also to see if we need to burn off some of the scar tissue with silver nitrate. This makes me very nervous since it can also burn the surrounding skin, especially with all of the secretions that come out around his site.