Recovery Day 2

Today was an interesting day as it was my 35th and rather than focusing on the birthday etc all I wanted was for Jake to feel better. Amazing the perspective that having kids will do to you.
Jake was possibly going to be discharged today but the Dr.'s wanted to take him off the morphine and then monitor how he responded to the pain and transition him to the tylenol with codeine that we will be giving him. They decided to keep him an extra night and we are happy with the decision as it keeps Jake in the hands of great medical care. He is getting better with each day and now is eating and smiling and even starting to be a little feisty. It's such a relief to see him progress in such a short while. The family had left so it was just Sam and I in the hospital spending time with Jake. He is too funny as he loves being in his stroller versus the hospital bed and we wheel him around often. Sam bought Jake a giant Elmo balloon today for his room and he was enamored immediately staring at it often. Tomorrow they expect to discharge us and we changed our flight from the am to the late afternoon to give us enough time to deal with everything. Interesting enough it is snowing right now in Boston and a storm is starting from tonight into tomorrow so we are hoping it is on the lighter side and we don't get stuck here but we can't control that so we will just focus on getting Jake discharged and go from there. One more thing I forgot to mention is that Jake's favorite thing to do is hang out with all the nurses at the nursing station in the stroller. They all know him and he's a smart little guy soaking it up as the center of attention. He no longer is hooked up to any machines and they took out his IV today so looks like all systems go and we are thankful for that.