It's a Brand New Day!

Well, Good Morning all.......it's Mommy! I thought I might make my first contribution to this website and take a little pressure off our cousin Billy who created this website and has been updating it all by himself for days now! I have to be honest......I wouldn't have known how to get this thing up and running, so many many thanks to Billy (Hobbs) for thinking of this way to keep all of Tristan's family and friends updated! And thanks to Billy for spending his days here by Tristan's side to obtain all of these updates.....as well as all of you who have tirelessly spent days and nights up here by our boy's side! Okay, now on to news about the Big Guy........as you saw from the post yesterday, Tristan has been kicked out of the ICU and moved upstairs to the Big Boy Pediatric Unit! Grandma Lisa, brother Jesse and Mommy and Daddy were here yesterday for the Big Move and actually had to get a very large cart to bring all of our things upstairs to our new room......we needed the cart because all of our loved ones have brought so many cards, balloons, gifts, magazines, care packages, snacks, drinks, etc that we had accumulated quite a mass of things in that little ICU room! Tristan's new room has better accomodations for visiting and it has a refrigerator too, so we are all pretty psyched at our new digs! As soon as Tristan got to his new room last night he had to go potty, so Nurse Crystal and Grandma Lisa got Tristan up and out of bed and had him go potty! It was a long hard walk for him after laying in his bed for the last 3 days, so we were very proud of him! Needless to say, he was very pooped after his big day yesterday and spent the evening last night taking little naps here and there. He has now been off morphine for 24 hours and we are seeing a return of our old Tristan.......Praise God! The morphine depressed his breathing thereby necessitating the increased oxygen and also kept Tristan pretty out of it, so we are NOT sad to see that go! He was pretty excited to sit in his new room and watch "X-Men Wolverine Origins" last night followed by TWO showings of a Tom and Jerry movie! Daddy convinced me to let Tristan watch his Tom and Jerry still at midnight when he was protesting that mommy was shutting the lights off for bedtime! Tristan received respiratory therapy every 4 hours during the night to help break up the "gunk" in his lungs and encourage him to cough it all out. They say he sounds clearer this mroning, but still has a ways to go. He was awake when mommy woke up doing guess what?........yes, watching Tom and Jerry! We went over the breakfast menu together and he chose some Lucky Charms.....I think that will be the first meal he really enjoys as the kid LOVES cereal! Think he gets that from Mommy! As of the writing of this update Tristan is working with Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy all at once at his bedside.....he is pretty weak but is being a very good sport! He will also have a Neuro consult later today to see if he will be a candidate for "Brain Trauma Outpatient Therapy"..........he may or may not be they say. Well, Mommy is going to go join Daddy and watch Tristan have his therapy........will update more later. Please know how amazingly blessed we feel to have such wonderful friends and family that have surrounded us with support and love and prayers.......we fully believe in the power of prayer! God has worked BIG miracles in this boy and we are so thankful! God Bless!
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