Chase comes home soon!

Here are the pictures of Chase after the surgery on Friday to place the broviac tube through his chest (the broviac tube is a little like a feeding tube). He did really well and never even needed the pain meds. They took the picc line out of his head yesterday and has an awkward bald spot form where they shaved his head to put in the picc line. The poor kid has holes all over in his body…his head, chest and stomach. :) He comes home this week and we can’t wait! He will require a lot of maintenance, but at least we’ll have a family Christmas at home instead of in the hospital. He will need to be connected to the TPN machine for 20 hours a day (TPN is the “stuff” that goes through his broviac tube and gives him all his needed nutrients). He will have to go back to the hospital in January for 2 more surgeries and will then need to stay for about 2 additional weeks, but then (hopefully) we’ll be done with all this craziness! Thanks again for all you’ve done for us. We love you all and you’ll never know what your service and prayers mean to us.