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Luke is Home!

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Luke, © Steve Webel

Luke has finally been discharged from the NICU and is home along with Erica and the rest of the family!  His release from the hospital came upon us quickly and a bit unexpected. On Friday, we had a very outgoing NICU nurse (named Elizabeth) who also seemed very pro-active in moving Luke along in his feedings. She informed us when we arrived around lunch time on Friday that Luke was doing very good and in her opinion, could go home as early as Sunday – but then she warned us to not get our hopes up.

Shortly after that, the NICU doctor on call that day showed up and started to tell us how pleased she was with Luke’s progress and that he could possibly go home as early as Sunday! So our hopes were officially raised. The key benchmark for Luke to meet was for him to manage 16 feedings in a 48 hour period (without having to use the feeding tube). He had been eating 8 meals per day, but they were a combination of eating via bottles, Erica feeding him, and eating via his feeding tube. When we asked when the last time he had been fed via his feeding tube, they looked it up, and it was at noon on Thursday – so he had already gone 24 hours without having to use it! Continue reading →

The Latest on Luke

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Our life has kinda a ‘blur’ lately. If you’ve been following our family’s story, I’m sure you understand! It’s been a few days since I updated everyone here on my blog, so I thought I needed to give an update!

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Luke is still in the NICU, but he has been making consistent progress over the past few days! Because he was not having any more troubles keeping his body temp up, he was moved from his special ‘bed’ with the warmer to a normal hospital crib. He has also been pretty consistently keeping his breathing at a more normal (slower) pace. Occasionally his breathing slows way down and sounds the Apnea(?) alarm, but his nurses have not seemed concerned about it. I guess a little bit of that is not a big problem! Continue reading →

Progress

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Today is day three for little Luke Webel, and it has been a day for little steps being taken in the right direction for both him and for Erica.
Erica has been moved from her OB recovery room to a new room that is back in the same part of the hospital where she spent the past 5 weeks, with all the nurses she has come to know and love. She is still pretty sore from the surgery, but has been able to get out of bed and move around, which should speed up her recovery long-term.

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The Compassion of the LORD

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Isaiah 55

1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
4 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.

6 “Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

12 “For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the LORD,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”