The incredible shrinking KADEN

Well, if you take a look and the before and after pictures....you will notice that Kaden is really lost a lot of his swolleness. (Top pic was 3 days ago)(Bottom was today) Today, he continued to have good stats all day long and is still scheduled to do a trial to try and get off ECMO at 10:00AM Easter morning. We hung out at the NICU all day today just talking to Kaden and giving him love. We got really worried from about noon to six thirty in the afternoon because it looked like he wasn't peeing like he was supposed to. He started off with really good numbers in the morning showing that he was losing more fluid than he was taking in. But, in the afternoon, his numbers went back to the positive (+40)for the day because he wasn't going pee like he should have been. About 6 o'clock, I asked the nurses why he wasn't peeing like he was supposed to and they had no clue why. About six thirty, I was thinking...why isn't Kaden peeing? It looks like his body is really losing fluid, but, I don't see any pee in his cathater bag. So I started using my investigative skills and came to the conclusion that his cathater connection to his bag was leaking yesterday and the nurses taped it and put a diaper around it. I asked the nurse if she had checked the diaper that is surrounding the leaking cathater and her face lit up as she picked up the soaking diaper. The diaper was full of Kaden's pee-pee. His cathater had been leaking all day. The nurse weighed his diaper and his number went from (+40) to (-129) which was totally awesome!! Kaden had been peeing all day and we did'nt even know it. So, once we figured out that mystery, we were good to come back to our hotel, get some dinner, and try and relax for the night.

We called the NICU just a few minutes ago to make sure that Kaden was still on track and making god number. He was indeed, which makes us very happy! Now, Kristi is having stress about tomorrow's trial run to get Kaden off the ECMO. I think he will do just fine. He needs to get off the ECMO so that he can start preparing for his corrective surgery. I will update in the ASAP to let everybody know how it goes in the morning.

On a side note-- Shane Nelson (Nayeli Faith Nelson's daddy) came by today to visit us in the NICU. He got to see Kaden and gave him some great words of encouragement to beat this CDH butt. It was very nice of Shane to take time out of his day off to come and see us and support us. Thank you!

So, everybody please pray for tomorrow that Kaden does well for his trial off the ECMO. Doctors say that if everything goes well on the trial, they will de-canulate Kaden and get him off the "Bloody Beast" as Kristi calls it. I am 110% positive that Kaden will be off tomorrow. I think ECMO gave his body the rest it needed, now he is ready to continue on his recovery and move on to surgery. More to come tomorrow.