When we woke up this morning, we weren't sure if we'd be discharged today or not. We knew there were still a few studies Holden needed to do before we could leave. They were going to do his swallow study at 2 pm today, but they knew how anxious we were to be home, so they were able to move it up to 11:15 am. Unfortunately, he is still aspirating into his lungs a little bit, so he'll have to keep the feeding tube. He'll be able to do half his feeding thickened in a bottle and half through his tube. Okay, we were hoping not to have to deal with that at home, but we can do it.
Then they came in and did his carseat study around 3 pm. We'd asked the nurse to do our discharge paperwork while Holden was doing his carseat study (a 3 hour study), so that we'd be all set to leave right when his study was finished (so long as he passed of course). We really were not messing around about trying to get home tonight! At around 5:45, about 30 minutes before his test was supposed to be finished, the doctor came in and said his test was done. He'd passed with flying colors, since he didn't desat once during his test!
Woohoooooo! We were free to go!!! We already had our three wagons of stuff packed up. We said peace out to this view...
...and we were on our way!
About three hours later (We had to stop at a McDonald's to feed Holden.), we pulled into our driveway to this sweet sign my dad and Aurora made and all our family awaiting our (Holden's) arrival.
HOME. SWEET. HOME.
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