January 21, 2009

Good Evening Kolton Support Group (KSG),
I hope this message finds all of you well. We can't state this enough but we want to thank all of you for your continued prayers, kind words, positive thoughts, & generous offerings. It would be hard to continue on without all of your support and prayers!
Kolton had a great first week Birthday today. It was an exciting day for me personally, I actually got to hear him cry for the first time, I can't explain to you how sweet that sounded in my ears. He is actually taking a pacifier now too. I'm happy to announce that he is on a continual feed now, that is somewhat like an IV drip, but instead it is a slow constant flow of Gretchen's milk to his stomach. In regards to breathing he is now on the C-Pap for two hours then he goes on another High flow ventilator for two hours, this is a continuing cycle in order to get him to be fully breathing on his own. Tomorrow will be another exciting day, his case will be presented at the Cardiology Board meeting. As we stated before, they will discuss his diagnosis and figure out how they are going to move forward with his future heart surgeries. Hopefully we will have a better understanding after tomorrow what the options are, the time frame, etc..
This whole message is a day late and we apologize.. our other son Tavyn ended up coming down with pneumonia and got to take a fun ride to the ER last night in the ambulance. Of course he thought it was really fun!!! Due to Tavyn's illness and our being run down we were strongly advised to stay at home today rest and get better. It was hard but it was for the sake of our other little one Kolton. We are on the mend and Gretchen will be with Kolton the next two days. Hopefully she will get a chance to talk to the cardiologists???
As I stated before we could not have made it through with out all of your support. I finally finished the book I was reading to Kolton and it was the ideal book for that time period. If you are curious it is titled Love Your Life, By Victoria Osteen. Here is another quote that somewhat explains how all of your support has helped us, "I encourage you today: Don't put the load of responsibilities for your happiness on your spouse or the people around you. Make the decision to do your part. When you fill the emotional buckets of others, you enable them to do the same for you. Strive each day to be a people builder and help make those people around you a group of winners. Success breeds success, and when you encourage others in their dreams, you are not only building great relationships, but you are setting the stage to bring your own goals and dreams to pass."
Thank all of you for filling our "emotional buckets."
Have a good night.
All of our best,
The Thompson Tribe