Fresno Visit

The end of December brought us to Fresno for Joshua's planned hypospadias surgery. He was to have an MRI Tuesday (to follow his liver hemangiomas) with surgery Thursday. Tuesday, the MRI happened, no apparent issues. By Tuesday night, we were rushing to the ER b/c he couldn't breathe. It was the scariest parenting moment we have ever had. The MRI had to be done under sedation, anesthesia. No big, we've done that twice before. When we picked him up from recovery, I noticed he sounded a little croup-y. I asked the nurse about it and she said, oh, it's just because they intubated him. (They had to intubate in order to simulate breath holds so they could get the best images possible) Ok, fine. We go back to Mike's mom's and he acts pretty normal, still sounded a bit croupish, but not crazy. I put him to bed as usual and he woke up about 1 hour later and could barely breathe. We did the regular steamy shower, stand out in the cold, etc. for croup to no avail. It was just getting worse. So, to the ER we went. Bottom line, we were there all night, he got 2 breathing treatments and a powerful steroid. He also got an x-ray that showed swelling in his trachea... duh. We could hear it. They tried to get us to stay for longer, but I threw a fit and told the docs we were leaving. He sounded fine at that point, we were 8 minutes from the hospital if something should go wrong, we'd come back. It all ended well, aside from the surgery getting cancelled. Oh, and finding out that the "post intubation croup" had been caused by the dumb anesthesiologist using the wrong size tube to intubate him.

After he was all recovered, we had friends come visit... Cousin Kaycee and Kramer.... And we met Mike's grandparents for lunch on our way out of town...

Grandpa and Grandma Engvall

Mike's little brother Stanton and Addie Ray

It ended up a good visit, we got to enjoy "Christmas" with Mike's mom and fam and saw some friends. We ended our December hibernation from germs and decided that we were going to get out and have a life again. Surgery got rescheduled for Jan 17. We lived our life and just prayed to stay healthy.

OH! And the MRI showed his hemangiomas are SHRINKING! Thank you Lord!!!