Big Improvement

Sam's doing great. Nothing like a couple of days of intravenious heavy duty antibiotics to put the sparkle back in your eyes!

They had to pull his TPN line and will insert a new line in a fresh vein on Monday. It's just a minor surgical procedure, knock him out and get it in. His lungs are clearing nicely and this mornings blood work came back with good numbers so I'll likely be able to bring him home Monday once he's come out of recovery.

He's grumpy and bored which is always a sure sign he's ready to come home :)

Even though Sam won't be able to join us were still going ahead with our plans to celebrate Andrew's 15th birthday tomorrow. Andrew is a big St. Louis Cardinals fan and when I realized they'd be in town on his birthday playing the Dodgers I managed to get really good tickets on the first base side. He's been looking forward to this for months and I don't want him to miss the chance to see his heroes play in person.

Sam told him he'd be watching the game and if we see any camera's near by we'll all make specticals of ourselves in an attempt to get to wave at him on TV and right after the game we'll stop by the hospital for a bit so he can hear all about it.