Back in Minnesota

I arrived tonight around 9 and I'm going to be here with Kenzen until the 25 of May. I was very nervous to come here because on Thursday they started to take him off of his pain medicine and he started to have withdrawal symptoms and I was afraid it was going to be a very long and painful process. But when I got here tonight he is off of his pain medicine and they have used methadone to help him with that and he isn't having withdrawal symptoms which makes me very pleased and relieved I didn't want him to have to suffer with something like that. They also stopped his last medicine that was a drip a few days ago so the only things he is getting is his IV nutrition and some potassium supplement. He is doing really well and he looks great he isn't swollen anymore and he looks comfortable. His biggest challenges at this point is still getting off the ventilator which is going a lot slower then I thought it would and he is still having the chyle leak even on the portegen. They stopped his feeds a few days ago to try and get rid of the drainage and they will have to try a different kind of food to see if he can tolerate that. He is very strong and we are so grateful for how well he has done and how blessed we've been.