Day 3-14

ok i'm continuing the story and trying to shorten it.
Essentially day 3-14 was a new medical problem each day. After they found his brain damage the order went something like this-heart rate accelerated and wouldn't go down so he started medicine that he would take until he's 1 (this is called SVT), had 2 seizures (quite breathing during 1), has blood pooled in his left eye (we couldn't see this from the outside, blood from a brain bleed had drained down his optic nerve and filled his left eye), and a little blood in the right. This was spread out each day.
By day 7 or8 things took a turn for the better. Christian begin breathing without assisted oxygen, eating more and got rid of his feeding tube, and opening his eyes.
We went home on the day he was actually due Feb 11. After being home for 1 day we noticed he wasn't eating as much and was a little cold. So I called the nurse hotline around 11pm and they told me to take his temp which was 95 degrees. That was the nurses cue to say "Mrs. Russell I want you to remain calm and call 911. You need to go to the hospital". Ok -remain calm. So we wrapped him in a ton of blankets, the ambulance came to take us to the hospital.

There is so much more to write in between all of that but I'll save it for my book I'm going to write. We stayed in the ER from midnight to 8 am and then went to the pediatric floor. They finally found that he had hypothyroidism. So we stayed there for 4 days then were flown to St.Louis Children's Hospital for 4 day stay. Nothing new was found or done while in St. Louis so we finally came home to stay!

All we knew was that we would have to "wait and see" what Christian's life would be like. So that's what we do. It's hard to say for sure with brain injuries what a child will be able to do.
The sky's the limit!