Submitted by Mike on Wed, 12/05/2007 – 4:19pm.

Brandon was released from the hospital and was sent home on oral antibiotics. We have to take him back to the hospital in the morning for some lab work. Brandon is very glad to be home with his toys. He gave them all a kiss and told them how much he missed playing with them!!! Mike and I are also very glad to be back home. Being in the hospital round-the-clock for a week can exhaust you!! Brandon will be on the antibiotics for 10 more days, then we will start to schedule some of the tests to determine if surgery will be needed.

It has been snowing here for the past few days! Brandon wants Mike to make him a “Snowman Family”!!(I’ll be sure and take some pictures if that happens!!)

We were able to get Brandon a real Christmas tree!! We decided that we should cut one down ourselves at a tree farm. This ADVENTURE took place 3 days before our hospital stay. We can now truely appreciate how lucky we are to be able to go to a tree stand at home and just pick one out!! They gave us a saw and a cart to pull the cut tree in. The poor tree never made it inside our apartment. We put it on the back porch and it stayed there until last night. It was frozen and covered in snow but we did manage to put it in the stand and give it some water! Doctor’s said Brandon could be around a live tree as long as he dosen’t put it in his mouth and we wash his hands anytime he touches it. It is 12 degrees out right now and we have about 8-9 inches of snow on the ground. The local news said this is just a little taste of whats to come!!

Thanks for all of the messages- Brandon looks all the time to see if anyone wrote!! Love, Julie