Going Home!

We made it home from the hospital on January 20th with mixed feelings about going home. Of course we were happy to go home, however, Sam was not healthy yet and was not tolerating his feedings very well. Also, we went home to 24/7 nursing care in our home. We are used to having lots of people in and out of our house, but not strangers. We have a pool of 7 different nurses working with Sam. Lots of training is involved and the constant feeling of having no privacy in your own home is definitely something that we have to get used to. Sam was sedated for an eye exam last Wednesday due to a finding on his CT scan last Monday. Unfortunately, the news was not great. Sam has detached retinas in both eyes and glaucoma in his left eye. The pressure in his left eye is 6x that of his right eye. Also, he has a retinal hemorrhage behind his left eye. We are using drops to try and lower the pressure and will have to sedate him again on Feb. 16th for another eye exam. We are praying that the drops are the answer to helping relieve his discomfort.