January 31, 2011

          Today, baby Landon came off ECMO.  Yesterday we were told by pretty much every doctor that we talked to to get prepared to lose our son.  I would not accept that God had brought us this far, he would bring us all the way.  Landon proved all the doctors wrong today and made a complete 180 from yesterday!  They could wean like crazy on ECMO and he did great!  They did his O2 challenge and it was okay but not great.  They capped off ECMO so basically it wasnt doing anything for him.  It was all the ventilator and Landon.  He did great!  They did the surgery around 4:30 or so and we got to go back and see him shortly after they were finished.  It was so weird to see him without all the tubes, but a good weird.  Since I had not seen him without all the "stuff" hooked up to him.  Thomas and I will be staying at the hospital with Landon tonight.  We went back after surgery and talked to him and he popped his eyes open for a brief minute and of course mommy cried.  It was the first time I had truely seen his eyes open and it was so precious.  Today was also the first day I changed his diaper.  Thank you all so much for the continued prayers and we ask to keep them coming.  Our next hurdle will be getting repaired.