Discharged

Elijah came home on Friday afternoon. I have been slow on updating because I caught his cold and have been under the weather. It just goes to show you how fragile he really is. Noah and I both got sick and both of us recovered just fine. Elijah catches it, and he is hospitalized for 5 days. Crazy. We are going to pull Noah out of preschool after this week in hopes that it will prevent more illness from coming in the house. I feel awful about pulling Noah out because he loves it so much, but I just have to remind myself that it is temporary and that kids typically have summers off. I am hoping Elijah will be able to have his next surgery before school starts for all of us in the fall. I am afraid of the germs that all of us will bring home once we return to school. I know that I typically get sick when the school year begins and Dion does as well.

On another note, this stay at UCLA has confirmed our decision to go with CHLA. If you read the posts from my pregnancy, you will remember that I was incredibly torn between the two hospitals. When Elijah got sick this time, we were forced to go to UCLA. Once we got there, because his heart function was good, we did not force the issue and get transferred to CHLA. However, there are drastic differences between the two hospitals and if this were to happen again, we will do everything in our power to get to CHLA. I am very grateful to the ladies from Sisters by Heart for guiding me in the direction of CHLA. I'm not sure that Elijah's outcome from the first surgery would have been so good had we gone with UCLA.

A fellow heart friend of mine had the poem on the side on her blog and I liked it so much, I added it to mine. I hope she doesn't mind!