A week old

How can a week seem like 3 months? we feel like we've had this child with us for months, hospital visits, scares and medicines for months. but we just reached a week. Liam's clinical health is improving. A lot less medicine is being pumped into him. He's starting to use his lungs lots more and may be "upgraded" to a conventional ventilator in a few days. His skin is doing much better. He has his ups and downs of medicines he takes but overall is improving. The doctor says he'll make it through. can't guarantee it. But his clinical health looks good. He started on his first milk feeding today. we will see how he does with it. He can another brain scan today. The bleeding in his brain has started to subside. there's still a large hemorrage in his right side of the brain, but there isn't any more new blood in there. We wish this meant that his brain was healing and he was gonna get better. but the blood that went into his brain did some major damage. Liam is in a very high risk category of having some major problems. We sat down with the doctor today and talked about options. trying to figure out if you should pull the plug on your newborn or not is something no parent should go through. not even a bad one. Liams brain bleed is the worst they've seen around there in the last 6 months. but the doctor says he still has a chance of having a somewhat normal life. No one knows. only Liam and Heavenly Father know what's going to happen to him. He could end up with a little limp. or be completely bed ridden, being fed with a tube, and just living. We can't do that to him. But he has a chance. And no parent would give up that little chance their child has. Liam is showing us with his improvement that he's going to fight. and fight hard. He's shown us the power of prayer and the power of the priesthood are above all. He's brought people to their knees, praying to our Heavenly father for a miracle. Because at this point, that's what we're praying for. but why not. he's shown that he is a fighter and is going to fight hard. Pray for Liam. He needs a miracle. I got to change his diaper today. oh the things we take for granted when life is easy.