Thanking God

Here's three pictures from right before the surgery. Clay is in a baby-size johnny. It was stinking cute. Stephen went to the OR with him to see him put under.

Amazingly, he fell asleep. He hadn't eaten in quite a while from food restrictions for surgery so we were glad when he choose sleep over whaling.
After he was in surgery, he was sent over to the building next door: MGH's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

We had to wait most of the day to see him again.


He had an AMAZING amount of tubes, nodes, lights, and IVs attached to him. The PICU had about six doctors and then many more nurses on the floor constantly. They monitored him very closely. He was sedated and put on morphine for a full 24 hours so that he would not pull the tubes out.
This was his room/area. The back section is where parents can sleep.





We knew that this surgery was potentially saving his life, so it was a GREAT day. It was hard to see him like that, but the gratefulness we felt for the surgery over-road our concern.

Above is what he looked like the first day. Below is the following morning after they took out the breathing tube and had inserted a feeding tube and put on an oxygen tube.


Once he was stable, they moved him back over to Mass Eye & Ear. We spent the night again.



He smiled when he woke up the second day and that's when I knew Clay was back in town.

The view was fabulous. We could see most of Boston.


Thank you to all of you for asking God to protect Clay. He owes us nothing, but has chosen to be gracious.

Proverbs 3:25a and 26a
Have no fear of sudden disaster . . . . for the LORD will be your confidence.