We had a bit of a rough week.  Mason was having a hard time eating, and we spent most of the week pulling our hair out trying to figure out why.  Is he in pain?  Does he have gas?  Is he associating the bottle with his medicine?  Will he eat cereal?  Will he eat applesauce? 

 We finally discovered that if we held the bottle on the left side of his mouth (his more developed side), he ate (slightly) better, so we decided that he must not want to eat without his feeding plate.

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Mason got his bandages off today!!! At least for a while. We had to put them back on (and we’re still working on how to get the nasal stints back in–quite a project). 

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We’ve been struggling a bit with managing Mason’s pain this week.  He started out doing very well on just Tylenol and Ibuprofin, but by about Friday he was definitely showing signs of being uncomfortable.  We suspected that he was either developing a tolerance, or that somehow the stronger meds from surgery had just finally phased out, so we stepped up to mixing Tylenol with Codeine into the rotation.

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Mason is doing very well. Probably better than Mom and Dad at this point…. . He’s up every few hours for pain medicine and really won’t sleep for longer than two hour stretches, but God is good and we are so happy with Mason’s progress.

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Mason has come through his first surgery with flying colors.

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