Rachel

Granton has a new baby cousin born today!!Her name is Rachel Lee Hardin. She wieghed six pounds eleven ounces.

Granton finally decided he wanted to turn one year old Thursday and be a big boy. He is babbling more and drinking from a cup with a straw. And, the most exciting thing is that he crawled forward today instead of backward and reached for a toy about two feet in front of him! This is a lot further than PT advises to place the toys. Also, he made me laugh out loud today when he was rocking out in a pink teapot/flower exersaucer from child life. He was listening to Lost Highway by Bon Jovi. It was so funny because he can't quite jump as high as his jumparoo allows, but he was groovin' all over the place. I really wish I had that on film. The nurse thought it was hilarious, too. Our new room is more spacious which is nice. But, I don't think we'll be here for long according to the doctors on rounds this morning. The biopsy, so far, only shows fatty tissues and no lymphnodes. However, the puss/fluid the surgeon got out should be able to tell us what the infection is or if the current antibiotics are doing their job. If they are the cultures won't grow anything. That's all for now.

Jenni

Post-Surgery

The surgeon said everything went well. He took out some fluid/puss and lymph node tissue for tests. He also used permanent stitches instead of disolvable ones to help prevent infection. He has a dressing on until next week when the stitches can come out. He said that the area was easy to access and not far up into his jaw line where other lymph nodes are. We pray, especially, for no infection of the wound resulting from the procedure itself. He is currently recovering and should wake up shortly.

Jenni

Granton just went into surgery. He will take a couple samples of lymph nodes out for testing and then they will be diagnosed for proper treatment. we should know what the infection is by wednesday.

Jenni

Granton has been a happy boy the past couple days! He took a bottle last night, as well as his syringe! He drank about 4 oz. out of the bottle. We were both pleased to see this! He weighs 7.475 (16 lbs. 4 0z.) today which means he gained weight! And, his surgery is scheduled for the afternoon around 2 or 3 unless we hear otherwise. I am waiting on a doctor to come confirm that he still wants to go through with the procedure. We would like to feed him if we don't have to have surgery. As of now he can't have food all day... and we know the operating room is never available when they say, so that is probably not an exageration. I'll let you know more later.

Jenni

Granton seemed to be in a good mood last night. Aunt Denise came up with her lap top so we are able to post a picture. We don't have much news other than they are going to cut his feeds tonight so they can do a little surgery for the lump on his neck tomorrow. However, the lump seems to be getting better. They may decide to see if it goes away on it's own without surgery. Please pray that we do the right thing. We will keep posting as things happen.

Together again

It sure is nice to have our family back together again. I think Granton looks pretty good. I have not ever seen this lump on his neck but they tell me has shrunk. This is probably from the antibiotics. The little guy has put on some more weight also. He tipped the scales at 7.425 today. This is a pretty big jump for him. I have also noticed he has a few more sounds in his babbling. I just finished holding him and feeding him some sweet peas. I thought he ate pretty well. I really want to put a new picture of the little man on the blog but we are using a different computer which does not have a slot to put the SD card in. We will be looking for a way to get his picture out soon. I just want everyone to know the little guy seems to be doing all right. We don’t know for sure but he may have his birthday party in the hospital. We are just so thankful we get to have a birthday party. Thank you for praying for us; it means so much.