Great News!!

We went for a follow-up appointment at the pediatrician today, to be sure he was over his ear infection and cold. The doctor said that he was over all of it. But that wasn't all...he said:
1. Evan doesn't necessarily need his RSV injections this year.
2. If he does get RSV, it shouldn't mean more lung damage (as we had previously thought), worst case a hospitalization and oxygen until it clears
3. He also said this: "I think he's doing wonderfully...he is the poster child for how you want this all to go, being such an early preemie." I almost cried.


All of that being said, we do still need to be careful around crowds. We probably won't be visiting Walmart or the grocery store (Evan and I together, anyway) and it's likely we won't have him in the church nursery until next spring. Holiday season will be difficult, but we don't plan on staying home from family get-togethers! We've earned the right to celebrate the holidays as a family, with our families, darn it!

And after January 1st, when a new insurance deductible applies, we'll probably get pretty strict, as we really don't want to start off 2009 with new bills to add to the ones we are still paying from his first hospital stay.

But, this was such great news, I just had to share it.