Speed Bumb

Yesterday was a rough one for Britt. He did really well all morning, with therapy and everything, and they even took off the speaking valve on his trach and put a cap on it…so he was breathing for the first time, through his mouth and out his mouth, just like us! It was awesome, he did so good!!

But then out of no where he was in a lot of pain, and had to go to the bathroom but couldn't. We couldn't figure out what was wrong for hours. He was just kept crying and curling up in a ball. It was really hard to watch I'm not going to lie. The worst is him not being able to communicate with us what was hurting or what was wrong. We had to play a guessing game forever. He got an x-ray done, took some pain and nausea medicine, they thought it was just an upset stomach, but they decided to do a ct scan, and they figured out he has about 6 kidney stone, pretty large ones, in both kidneys and in his ureter.

It broke my heart to watch my little brother struggle all day, in so much pain. We could actually hear him crying today, and screaming since he is starting to get his voice back, which made it even worse. I can tell he is trying to be tough, he tries to hold back the frowns and tears.

They've decided to go in and do surgery today sometime to remove them, so we are praying all goes well and that it can get taken care of as quickly and safely as possible!

When we took him down for the CT scan, it was like flashback to the ICU. I remember the first couple of times he went down for scans, it was so risky…they had to be so careful and take so many precautions. I remember me my mom and dad going in the waiting room, and praying that he would make it though the scan and back out okay. It was the most scary/stressful thing in the world. He was so fragile and so dependent on all of the machines and monitors that taking him away from the ICU for even 5 minutes took a whole team and a whole lot of caution and prayers. To be able to wheel him down to the scan today like we did, really hit me hard. I'm so thankful that we have made it to this point and that my brother has made such great progress since those first couple of days. The technician who did the scan today, was the one who did most of the scans when Britt first had his accident, he said.."hey Britt, you probably don't remember me but you've done this lot's of times before." I couldn't help but think, wow…we have sure come a long ways since those days.

We received a package yesterday from a stranger, with the sweetest note and treats inside, I just want to say to whoever did that…thank you. It made our hard day a little bit easier:)

thank you for all of the prayers and love, we are so so very grateful, we love you guys! keep believing!:)