A little piece of heaven

Happy New Year’s! We want to wish everyone that stops by a wonderful New Year’s.

We are all doing well and looking forward to the upcoming year.

Nathan is doing great…he had a very very rough couple of days as they couldn’t get an IV in him and they spent 3 days poking and trying, poking and trying, until finally yesterday they were able to get a Central Intravenous Line in. He relapsed a little as he didn’t get antibiotics for about 24hours, and was throwing up and not holding in fluids. But since the new line has been in, he’s been getting his antibiotics and doing much much better.

He’s definitely won everyone over at the UCLA Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

We have him sit up and watch everyone, and he just smiles at everyone passing by and screams to grab their attention. This morning a group of doctors was doing rounds and he had them all playing and fussing over him. The doctor speaking even lost her train of thought as he caught her attention and smiled. It was so cute to see. All of the nurses fight to take care of him and when they do, they won’t leave our side for a second 🙂 They just love playing with him and getting little shrieks of joy from him.

Even though we’re in intensive care, it’s been wonderful as it’s the first time in 6 weeks that he feels good, so he’s just such a happy boy.

Surgery has been postponed a few more days due to his relapse, so we’re looking at possibly next Monday.

Thanks again for your prayers and support and we wish you the best during this final holiday of the year.

Best wishes, Marcela, Owen and Nathan Dorje.

Nathan is recovering very well from his surgery. He was really groggy and out of it the day of the surgery, but he has been feeling very well the last couple of days and today he was already looking around, cooing at all the nurses, and having a good old time.

Yesterday was his 3rd day with a clean culture so it looks like the infection has cleared.

I asked around and apparently they do about 30 shunt surgeries a month at UCLA, and this is the first time in 4 years that they have a case with an infection. So he is the 1st in about 1500 patients to have an infection. How is that for bad luck.

Owen and I are considering relying on the lottery to pay the hospital bills…this baby has a way of beating the odds so we believe we can become millionaires 😉

Seriously, he is doing well and as always people are shocked by how strong and alert he is, and by well he is doing.

We are now waiting to hear when they want to have the next surgery. We are hoping it’s soon as we are all very ready to go home. After the next surgery we have to stay for an extra 2-3 days and then we should be able to go home.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and support as always.

Merry Xmas! I hope this holiday is bringing you lots of peace, love and joy.

Nathan’s first xmas has been full of surprises. He got better after his last illness, then he got sick again last Sunday. He’s been really really sick all week, and finally today the pediatrician sent us to the emergency room at UCLA.