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Caden is doing great. He continues to have good blood test results. He is looking and acting more like a one month old little boy every day. He will probably be left alone by the doctors until tomorrow. We are now allowed to walk in and pick up Caden without a nurse assisting us. That […]

I just got a call from the hospital. Caden has had his last IV line removed. At this time he has absolutely no IV lines. YEAH!!! They did not replace the line with a new one because Caden no longer requires IV medication. The doctors want to monitor him for a couple of days to […]

I just got up and called the hospital. Caden is off the breathing machine. YEAH!!! Sherry was holding him so I did not get a chance to talk to her. I will update you more later.

Caden has been doing good for the past 24 hours. Caden has done great on his CPAP trials which exercise and test his breathing while the machine is in standby mode. We expect to hear the doctors talk about removing the breathing machine in the next day or two. Caden’s diarrhea continues to go away. […]

Caden has been doing okay since my last posting. Caden is still on the breathing machine and the doctors have sent off a ton of tests. They are mainly just wanting to monitor him to see if he gets better as a result of the antibiotics wearing off. If the digestive problems have not been […]

Today was not the best day Caden has seen. The doctors had to place a new drain tube into Caden’s chest between his ribs. This drain will allow some non-blood fluid to be drained from an area called the Thoracic duct behind the heart and lungs. This duct is were a bunch of little vein […]

We have another praise report tonight. Caden had his chest closed today. We have just called his nurse one more time before we go to bed. She reports that he continues to do good as he has done all afternoon and into the evening. The doctors completed the procedure to close Caden’s chest this afternoon. […]

We have a praise report tonight. Caden has continued to improve little by little. The doctors and surgeons have scheduled Caden to have his chest sown back up tomorrow. Sherry and I visited Caden this evening after putting Riley to bed. Caden continues to improve ever so slowly. Since last night he has been completely […]

I just got off the phone with Caden’s nurse. I am back home to get Sherry in bed. She has become completely exhausted over the past 36 hours. Sherry is doing well enough physically to be off of her pain medicine now for about 24 hours. Joe and Darla are staying near to Caden when […]