Another line bites the dust

I walked into Lincolns room and saw the most beautiful thing in the whole world. I saw it from the hall way before I walked in the door. There it was bobbing up and down in his mouth. A green and yellow pacifier! I was so happy I almost started jumping up and down. "babe, babe look, a pacifier!" It took Will a few minutes to realize why I was getting so excited about the pacifier. That blasted breathing tube is gone and it is never coming back! Lincoln looks like a baby again. He also got his right atrial line, and his foley catheter taken out. Every doctor that sees us stops to tell us how good Lincoln is doing.

I sat at Lincolns bed full of gratitude. He laid there with his eyes wide open staring right at me. I was in the most blissful, peaceful state. From another patients room alarms started sounding. Doctors started to flock in that direction, some were running. Will was coming down the hall when this was all happening and saw the parents outside the room crying. They wheeled the heart/lung bypass machine by our room. I looked at Lincoln in his perfect state, then at his monitor, his heart rate, blood pressure, sats, all perfect. An immediate feeling of guilt swept over me, and tears swelled in my eyes. How did we get so lucky? I will forever be in debt to our Heavenly Father for the blessings we have received.

A little later we recieved more blessings. One of the surgeons came in and said he was going to remove all 3 tubes from his chest and the drainage line from his stomach. These were the last of the items that needed to be removed in order to hold him. I have been aching to hold him for the last 2 weeks. Today was a great day. Thank you for all of your prayers, they are heard and they and answered everyday.