Pro

Here are the rest of the Professional Pictures. I love them!!!! Let me know which ones are your favorites so I can get them out to you. I am assuming most people want at least a 15x17 of my little man :).

Consolidation

On Tuesday the 27th, Carter went in to have his Consolidation bars put on. We had to stop distracting his jaw on Saturday due to the extreme amount of pain he was in. We did not know what was going on, but we could no longer let him suffer like that. It was a sad realization, because we did not get the jaw pulled out as much as it needed to be. And also the right side of his jaw needed to come out more, and we were not able to do that. So, the surgery did not go as we had hoped, but we gave it our best shot. Our main goal was to improve his breathing, and that was accomplished. For the future, he will need lots of orthodontic work, and possible the Mandibular Distraction again.

We had to go into the OR to have the consolidation bars put on due to the amount of pain Little Carter was in. It is always hard to give your baby up when you know they are going to put him to sleep. I am not sure I will ever get used to it. While they were in there, they were able to find out that the top pin on the right side had pulled through the bone. That is why he was in so much pain. I could only imagine how bad that had to hurt. It just breaks my heart thinking about it. He now seems to be doing much better, and we have gotten lots of smiles out of him finally. The consolidation bars will probably stay on for about 6 weeks, and then we will finally be able to get in his neck again and give him kisses!!!!

Tim is finally feeling better after surviving the flu. He however has passed it on the Carter and Me. I did get Carter started on Tamiflu, so hopefully that helps him through this. Seriously, he has been through enough this month!!!

The pictures are just before surgery. Sorry no pictures of his New Bling yet, I will try to get on that tomorrow.

Deulings

Nick surprised Teresa with a trip to come see us this weekend for her Birthday! They got here on Friday night and stayed until Monday afternoon. We had so much fun hanging out with them and little Isaiah. We spent most of our time in Park City checking out the sites and hanging out in the hot tub. Mom and Dad came with us, and I think they really enjoyed finally getting away from all the house work. On Monday, we went to Antelope Island to see the great Salt Lake. No Buffalo burgers, but whatever. The weekend was great except for the fact that Tim got the H1N1, and Carter was in tons of pain due to the fact that one of his pins slipped through his bone.

We loved having the Deulings here, and can not wait to see them again. Come again soon, we miss you!!!!

Seriously

Seriously, do I have to have the cutest baby in the world?? He can get away with anything!!!

Poor Boy

Ahhh, sleeping on my back finally!!! It feels soooo good!!!

Carter had a horrible day yesterday. He seemed to be in terrible pain for hours and hours on end. It was worse than any day we had in the hospital because we were with out the IV pain meds. I have no idea what happened to him, my best guess is that he could have fallen on the pins and irritated them. They were bleeding some, so that is how I have come to that conclusion. He would not let me put him down, and he would just whimper, yes, whimper. It was heart breaking. I would walk him around the room for hours and when I would go to bend my knees to sit down, he would start to cry again. It was horrible. Today he is some better, but not himself. We see the Dr. again tomorrow, so hopefully he will have some answers for us. We are so tired of distracting him. We had originally thought we were only going to have to do the distraction for 10 days, and now we are on day 12, with still quite a ways to go. His breathing is still awesome when he is sleeping, so that is a blessing!!!

Distration

Carter has been doing so well since he has gotten home. Last night he slept in his bed, on his back, and we could hardly hear him breathing!!! It was so amazing!!!! It just makes us so happy to see his chest rise like a real person, in no distress at all. We are so happy with the progress he has made. It truly has been such a blessing to see him no longer in distress.

We went to his first Dr. appointment today. Dr. Muntz distracted him to the side so we had more room to move forward with his jaw. It is really neat how the distraction process itself seems not to hurt him. The resident was very excited to see Carter and said Carter was his favorite patient. It was cute. We are going back on Monday for some more distractions.

So, all in all Carter is doing amazing, he is off the pain meds and making great strides towards breathing like a champ. Go Carter Go!!!!

Home

We got to finally go home on Saturday. It was so great to finally walk out of the hospital with our little man after 5 days there.