Well, the little guy is still progressing by leaps and bounds. He's now almost completely converted over to breast milk direct from mama. I have a feeling we'll be heading home in a few days.
I have to say he's one bright kid. They did a developmental assessment; how he focuses, use of his hands, hearing, etc. and he passed every test with flying colors. I realize that I've been a bit slack with updates, but the long and short of it is that his EEG showed no signs of seizure activity (or even the precursors) and they are now not certain that the MRI showed signs of damage or not. Given his stellar reviews by therapists physical, occupational and speech (I guess he has trouble with adverbs and there might be an issue at work! JK), I think the thought is that he's a healthy, intelligent baby, even advanced in some ways.
From my perspective, it even seems like he's learning to imitate. After his dinner tonight, I laid him down on Dawn's chest and then kissed Dawn's shoulder. He watched me and then turned his head to face Dawn and put his lips to her skin. I did it again and so did he. I'm not saying it's not coincidence, but I'm certainly not saying it is!
He also seems very serious. I know he's been to the abyss and stared it down. I have a feeling he's going to be a very empathetic person.
The doctor who saved his life in Boulder stopped by. He had been at a conference in New York since right after treating Xander and on his return came straight from the airport. He told us that he was amazed to find that Xander had survived. He told he was the sickest kid he'd ever seen from the delivery room at BCH in more than 20 years of being a doctor. We also ran into some of the Flight For Life people. We thanked them, even though they didn't do the transport and when we said we were from Boulder, they knew who we were. I guess his story has traveled around the health care people around here. They were also very glad to hear how well he's doing.
We are soooooo blessed!
