Home from the hospital!

From our CaringBridge site:

Bradyn is home! The wish he has been presenting to us for 6 days now has finally come true! Today was an espcially rough day post-op. He had 6 tests to be done before going home, but they all came together wonderfully and he got his orders to come home. He was such a rock star today and totally got all this out of the way with a tear and a smile! It was almost 8pm when we got here and he was tired, but he was so excited that he was in his own home. Nana and Papa were here, the girls were in bed but he got to spend a little bit of time with Nana and Papa. After that all he wanted to do was crawl into bed.


We set up his old toddler car bed in our room so we could monitor him for the next few days or so especially since we would be getting up at odd hours for medicine. He has to be under supervision at all times since he is still wobbly but he is getting better with that every day. He will have to have outpatient physical therapy and hopefully we can do that here at home with Angelina's PT.

We will know more in the coming days about when we leave for his radiation treatment. We will be taking the 5 of us to Houston for about 2 months for Brady to have proton radiaiton treatment. They don't have that here at Cook's and it's a cleaner radiation treatment so we have to do it. We will more than likely be heading down there around the first of May. That will mean no school for Angelina and I don't know yet what I am going to do about my classes. It's not really the issue on the forefront of my mind right now!

God answered our prayer that he make it out of surgery and let him come home - we'll deal with the rest! Praise God for this!

We still can't thank everyone enough for all your prayers, love and support! Our families, the Cook Children's family that apparently adores Larry so much, all our friends and extensions of all these people - THANK YOU FOR PRAYING FOR OUR BABY!

For all those who came to visit, brought well wish gifts that put the smile on Brady's most handsome face, for the hugs, tears and supporting arms there just aren't words.

We are so glad to have brought him home. The hardest part is over - getting him through surgery - now treatment begins. He is a strong little boy and we intend to help him stay that way so he'll be around for a long, long time. Larry and I can't imagine life without him!

Love to you all!