Let there be light at the end of the tunnel...

I have some potentially huge news to report today. The NICU doctor talked with me this afternoon about an exit strategy for Kean. Yup, you read that right... a plan to get him home!!!
The doc said they don't like to send babies home on a feeding tube and oxygen but they do it sometimes and find the babies do better at home. So here's our plan. They will see how he does this weekend without oxygen-- he's on the lowest of flow-- so keep your fingers crossed. Then Monday night, Byron and I are supposed to take an Infant CPR class (required to take him home). Tuesday, they want me to spend the night at the hospital. They are going to take his feeding tube out and see how he does with just me! I'll room in - in a room in the Intensive Care unit and wake up every three hours to feed him. Kean will be on monitors that the nurses will keep track of from a desk outside the room. So here's our big first test. I'm very excited and hopeful and trying, oh trying not to get my hopes too high. We have to pass a car seat test and a few other hurdles... but this is big. I might get him home in this lifetime after all.