One last, first step

Exciting news! But first, this morning, we got up around 530 am-ish to see our little man before the 7 o'clock shift change at the unit. Matthew Chase is finally recovered from open heart surgery! We anxiously waited all morning after the CICU nurses told us we could come visit him at 8 am, and then after arriving to see him, we were told 11 am...? So, we met with Mr. Danny and Mrs. Liz for breakfast and said our good-bye's... so they didn't get to see him after he was all sewn up( We love y'all and miss having y'all here, see you soon) But anyway we held our composure, and patience hasn't been our best quality through this whole process, but surprisingly enough, we managed to find it somewhere! And, it paid off... we got to see him finally at 11 and he was kind of in and out, still tired from all the sedatives yesterday. The nurse, Kevin, who has been amazing, and helpful, and seems to have won Switch over with his deep commanding voice, told us the great news that we weren't expecting! He had done well with their breathing tests and he was getting the ventilator taken off! ( see pics below of huge tubes in his nose and mouth =( ..... ) We couldn't believe the great news, it made our day! Anyway so he finally got the tubes out and we got to see him without all the tape and tubes and stuff around his cute lil face! After about 2 hours of just playin with him and watchin him sleep... trying to coherse him into throwin a fit because we have yet to hear him cry, Kevin told us even more wonderful news. Tomorrow (Sunday) Switch will be getting the rest of his drainage tubes and heart monitor cables and feeding tubes taken out!!! Which means we can finally hold our baby boy for the first time like normal parents! We are so ecstatic, which is why I have to end this posting and go to bed! We are very thankful again for all of your prayers, he's doin so good. We love all of you, we will continue to keep everyone updated. May God bless all of you. Until next time, that's all for "Life with Switch"...

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Happily,
Shelley and Blake