Update on little Jamin

He is off the oscillator (shaky bed that makes him breathe and helps blood flow) and has all 3 chest tubes are out of his body! So the holes in his lungs look to have healed and he can semi breathe on his own with the help from the ventilator... at room oxygen level (21%) I might add! His ventilator reminds him to breath when he forgets and aids him if needed with his own initiated breath. He still has tubes and wires helping him with every other function but all the doctors (he has one assigned to him for everything, respiratory doc, heart doc ect.) and nurses are AMAZED with his quick progress, before they expected him not to be at this point after 3 weeks and he did it in 1 (less since he has about 13 more hours until he is one week old.) Only with God's power!

A few days ago, when I was feeling overwhelmed by how far he needs to go before we can take him home, I was encouraged by a simple AWANA song I used to sing with the chums. So appropriate...

"Little by little, inch by inch, by the yard it's hard, by the inch what a cinch. Never stare up the stairs just step up the steps. Little by little, inch by inch. "

There is still a looooooong way to go, but we will celebrate each *small* improvement!