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No tubes! We had a great McKay week! We had his weekly pediatrician appointment and he felt like he was ready for his STAT overnight test. You get a regular STAT monitor and it records their breathing for 12 hours. You take them off the oxygen completely and see how they do. As Kyle and I were incredibly excited, we were also incredibly nervous. He went in and checked on him a couple of times before bed. I would roll over every hour or so and check the numbers on the monitor to see where he was at. But we got a call 2 days later that he had passed and could come off the oxygen and heart monitor!
So good bye to you and the 50 feet of tubing that me and the dog are constantly tripping over!!!On Wednesday he also had an appointment with the cardiologist. They did and EKG and she said it looked great. She said his heart defect sounds like it is closed a little more than it was. So she needs to see us again in a month to check the defect and to make sure the Pulmonary Hypertension is not back. (It's very unlikely, but sometimes when they go off of oxygen their heart starts working hard and they develop it again). She also took him off 2 of his medications!! So good bye to ALL medical supplies (The pic above is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole Tupperware tower is full, I also have 2 other bags of medical supplies.)

When we were at our pediatricians on Wednesday he said he looked great. His weight is already up to 11 lbs. 11 oz! He said everything on his end is pretty much resolved. He doesn't need to see him any extra than his well checks!

He asked me how I thought he was doing and I said "He seems like a regular newborn to me". He agreed. It's been a long, long, long, 10 1/2 weeks. But we finally have our healthy baby!

*We still have an appointment with the geneticist at Primary's in a couple of weeks. There is also a geneticist who is in Chicago that may want to look at him as well. He could still possibly need an MRI in the next few months. But he is looking good!