I’m writing this entry on my Treo, sitting next to Theo’s hospital bed. He had what we hope is his last surgery yesterday. His colostomy was taken down, and he now has the same plumbing everyone else does (minus around 30% of his colon.) It’s hard to see him in pain again, and we’ve had a rough day and a half finding the right dosages of pain killers to keep him comfortable. But he’s already having more and more moments where we see Theo the baby, not Theo the patient.

With any luck, he’ll come home on Sunday… then we’ve got a month or two of keeping him in a bit of a bubble while he heals… and then hopefully, he comes out the other side of all this a completely healthy little boy.

So while CHOP may not have been my first choice to spend Thanksgiving, and we still have some hurdles to jump, we have a lot to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone…