Day 19 - 2

I think we are leaning towards telling the doctors that we want to wait on the pleurodesis. I have asked his surgeon about the long term effects of having this done (as it permanently sticks your lungs to your chest wall, which can't seem like a good thing) and she said he could still be an olympic athlete. She said the only thing that it would interfere with is if he ended up having lung cancer it would be harder to treat. But she said if he ever got pneumonia, it would actually be a benefit because pus couldn't accumulate around the lungs.

If they say chylothorax almost always clears up in 4-6 weeks (which is why you have to be on the low-fat diet for that amount of time), then we should just be a couple of weeks away from that, since he's already had this for almost 2 weeks.

When both surgeons and his cardiologist are here on Monday, I plan to have them list for me the benefits/risks of doing the pleurodesis vs waiting it out. I just don't feel like I am convinced yet to go ahead with the pleurodesis.

I am really hoping that this output just suddenly stops before Monday and that we don't have to worry about this at all. I even promised Nicholas $1,000 to his savings account if he would just stop this output asap. I'm not sure if they take bribes yet at 6 months old.

Funny story, last weekend Luke spent the night at Josh's parents house. Luke was telling me how they stayed up until after dark so they could look for shooting stars and make wishes. Then he said something about wishing that Nicholas was all better and could come home. I thought, wow, what a sweet, thoughtful boy I have raised. And I said to him (while beaming with pride inside) 'oh that was your wish?' and he said "NO, that was grandpa's wish, my wish was that I could get all the star gates opened in Mario'.  :)

I am totally missing my boys tonight. Luke is spending the night at grandma and grandpa's tonight (as he usually does on Saturdays) and I am just staying home tonight. Josh is up at the hospital with Nicholas. It's hard to have both of us up there overnight because someone (Josh LOL) has to sleep in a chair if we are both there.