Well I was once a micro-preemie but now…

After looking at this picture I found myself saying something we’ve been hearing from Dr’s, nurses, and RT’s all week. “I can’t believe how big he’s gotten”!!
Well we are praising the Lord tonight for his goodness to our family. We were able to get home today a bit after 1PM and are so happy to be back home. Greyson instantly crawled over and started playing with his toys once I sat him on the floor. To say that he is happy to be home would be an understatement! He is pretty much acting like our child again and we couldn’t be happier about that.
I do have to say that with his return to normalcy it has made his vocal cord paralasis much more heartbreaking. See up to this point, he hasn’t really tried to talk. He has cried, which comes out as just a raspy hairball kind of sound, but not really talk. Today he has been “talking” and it just kills you to see his mouth move but no sound come out. OK well sometimes there is a faint whisper but there is no voice whatsoever.
Now I don’t want to be a downer, we are incredibly thankful for where we are. I also have to tell you that once we got home we all laid down in mom and dad’s bed to take a nap and Greyson whispered “daddy” so very softly, yet clear as a bell. It will no doubt be one of those precious memories that I lock away to remember forever.
We serve an amazing God and my prayer tonight is that the God who could give a voice to a donkey, will restore the voice of a little boy so that the boy may grow up and use his voice to glorify God each and every day! We also pray that in the meantime God would protect Greyson’s airway while his vocal cords are unable to do that job.