Isaiah is home

Elizabeth brought Isaiah home this morning. What a relief. We have missed both of them at home for days now. When she brought him in I was leaving for work, but it was so nice to see him sleeping peacefully without any tubes, probes, or wires. He'll be very happy to sleep at home again.

The Storm

We got an ice storm yesterday that took out power to almost all of Marion and Cedar Rapids. Elizabeth and Isaiah were at the hospital on generators and I had the kids at her parents' house to visit family. We stayed the night at their house, but our house in CR was on one of the only streets in that area with power.

I went out on some generator service calls with Elizabeth's dad Bob, who owns an electrical business. It was fun to go 4WD'ing through the ice and snow and get some people powered up. One of the people was an invalid with in-home care who would've had to have been moved to the already hospitals by ambulance if we didn't get his power on.

Isaiah improving

Isaiah is improving a lot. He got a lot of sleep yesterday and in the evening was smiling and acting pretty normal. It sounds like he may be coming home tomorrow.

Isaiah Goes to NICU

After 36 hours home, Isaiah's congestion was no longer in his nose, but now in his chest. We took him to the doctor and they immediately put him in the NICU. His respiratory rate was high. After a night of nearly constant breathing treatments and steroids he was not much better. Then yesterday he improved a bit with some rest and more breathing treatments. Today he is in a regular room and hopefully he will be home in a couple days. It is much more difficult to have Elizabeth in the hospital with him now that there are two older ones that need to be watched. I took the rest of my available vacation from work this week and also got help from grandparents on both sides of the family. The older boys miss their mom a lot. What a rough week for all of us! Hopefully we will never endure this again.