We are back home

I haven't been able to update lately due to being at the hospital with Ian. As in my previous post, he had surgery on June 13th then again on June 24th. He ended up back in surgery again 3 days later on June 27th due to his abdomen being very swollen again and the ultrasound showed it was full of fluid and clots. They cleaned out his abdomen and placed a drain in. The drain has since been removed and he gradually started back on feeds. He was finally released on Tuesday (July 15th) after 33 days in the hospital. He is doing much better now. His belly is soooo tiny compared to what it used to be. He is having issues with constant diarrhea right now. After the 5 abdominal sugeries he has had, they have removed a total of almost 3ft of small intestine, leaving him with 75cm (almost 3ft) remaining. We will be following up with several specialists. He has hydronephrosis of the left kidney and a cyst on his right kidney that they are not concerned with. His incisions are all healed up well. He still has his central line in for now, and i flush that once a day. They will take it out next monday after his surgery (circumcision). They left it in to use to put him to sleep for the circ. It is so nice to finally be home again. He's getting to be such a big fella..he's 9lbs 10oz now. On tuesday he was 232 days old and had spent 198 of those days in the hospital, 34 at home... Crazy huh? Hopefully we can stay home and grow and have some sort of a "normal" life now. Thank you all for your continued prayers. I'll post pics in a few days when i get them all up on the computer. Until then, here are a couple i put on tonight from the other day.