There is No Place Like Home

So good news, we are home!!! We actually have been home for a few days now and it has been wonderful. We all are just happier being at home together as a family. Even the dogs seem happier.

So the past few days have been going really well. Kaden doesn't seem to be in much pain. He still has some, but he's handling it well by keeping his mind off of it. He's been playing a lot of video games, but only while he gets better :) He's been sleeping awesome, I guess he really does love being in his own bed. It is amazing to me to see the difference in Kaden between sitting in a hospital room all day, and being at home, he loves it here. We had one little scare when we got home. When we were in the hospital he had a big bandage over his incision that was really sticky and hard to take off. So the day we left we took it off with some stuff and all was well. Well he had steristrips over his incision holding it together, they told us to leave them on and they should come off in about 5 days. Well we get home, we put Kaden in front of a movie, and about 15 min later he comes into Dan and says "Dad, will you help me" and then he hands Dan one of the steristrips. He had ripped all of the steristrips off of his incision. We couldn't believe that he did that. So it was a trip to Walgreen's for some more steristrip bandages and some good tape and gauze pads to go over it. He hasn't touched them since, and the incision looks like it's doing good.

One thing that I have noticed since we've been home is that when Kaden is tired, he's not fighting it as bad as he use to, which occasionally leads him to falling asleep in funny and uncomfortable places. It was really funny, I took this picture of Kaden on my phone and I sent it to my mom saying "Kaden is falling asleep in random places". She text me back and asked "is that OK." I quickly responded "I put him in his bed right after I took the picture." She quickly called me saying "I don't want you to think that I think you're a bad mother for leaving him there, that's not what I meant." We both laughed and she was only wondering if maybe him falling asleep in random places a lot if that means he has narcolepsy. But not to worry, he's only fallen asleep a couple times in random places and there is no worries of narcolepsy.

Now this little guy has been amazing. I can't imagine how he felt being passed around everywhere, and Mom and Dad always leaving him and never really knowing why. He was getting very clingy to us at the end when he would see us. But this kid is amazing. He is as happy as ever and the biggest character. Him and Kaden are pretty much back to being brothers, and I love it.

What an amazing and emotional experience. It has been very humbling in every way. I will never take a healthy child for granted again. I mean seeing Kaden sick was really hard, but seeing other kids that were worse off then Kaden was even more humbling. I am so grateful for my happy healthy boys, and Kaden's full recovery. Thanks you so much again everyone for your thoughts and prayers, we felt every single one of them. Now it's back to normal life, wish me luck.