Almost There

It is am amazing to see how well Blake is healing. His stomach issues seem to be completely resolved and he is happily back to eating three meals a day. It seems like torture giving Blake the potassium supplements that he needs because he anticipates how horrible it tastes and makes his stomach feel so he cries at the site of it. Good news though, his levels are back up enough today that he no longer has to take the supplements but has been able to be moved to a medicine that maintains his levels as long as he is on Lasix.

Overall Blake is gaining more strength each day and was able to take a walk down the hallway and back today. He is able to stand at his bedside and do crafts or play with toys. He loves to take rides on his car to visit the fish and outside to the garden.

We received the results of the echo yesterday evening and it all looked great. Blake has a repaired heart with four working chambers!!! He has a small amount of mitral valve regurgitation (when the mitral valve doesn't close all the way and some blood can go back into the heart) but if they need to do something about that it will be will into the future. Between that, his pace maker and his homograft (it was used to close the large hole in Blake's heart) he will have basically maintenance surgeries through his lifetime but for now we just get to enjoy watching him run around with pink lips and amounts of energy he has never experienced!

As long as tomorrow's blood work comes back as good as it has looked today, we will talk about going home by early in the week! We were prepared to be here for much longer so it feels like such a treat to think of taking Blake home and letting him get strong!

Blake has a message for everyone today:

 

Can you believe that smile!