Aiden's Amazing Life: Catching up!

It's been quite busy around here that I haven't had a chance to update you all on Aiden's growing bubbles. He has had two fills since I last posted and things are pretty much still looking good. He really does amaze me how he doesn't let these bubbles stop him from life!

When we did his fifth fill, my dad's family was here for a family reunion so a lot of them were able to witness just how easy the fills have been for us this time! I think they were all amazed by the process and especially by how Aiden did even when we had a little mishap. Everything had been going just fine until all of the sudden the syringe detached from the needle and there went saline all over Daddy and Aiden. Had this been our first round, we probably would have panicked but we didn't. Luckily, I fill up extra syringes of saline just in case something like this happens so I just moved on to the next one, estimating how much saline actually went in the first time before it detached from the needle. The other bubble went just fine! I just had to laugh though that of course something would happen like that when I have a crowd watching us! We did hit exciting news that week with the shoulder bubble now having 125cc in it, which is half way to the size of the expander!

Everything was going great and then Aiden woke up with a runny nose and a slight temperature a few days after his fill. This always seems to happen at least once during expansion that he gets sick. He of course, was still on the antibiotics so I didn't even bother emailing Dr. Bauer. Thankfully he did not have that bad of a cold and he was all better by the time Sunday came around again to do his fill. I still can't believe that we did Aiden's sixth fill already. The process seems so long when you first get those bubbles placed but before we know it, we are more than half way through the expansion!

Aiden's bubbles are getting pretty big now! The shoulder one is at 140cc and the back one is at 540cc!!!! We are taking it on the easy side with the shoulder as Dr. Bauer has mentioned that it looks on the thin side but for now everything is in good shape. It certainly doesn't take away any worry though!!! If everything goes accordingly, we should have five more fills and then off to surgery we go!!

Check out his growing bubbles!!!