Good news for once!

We are fortunate that last week went very well! We arrived at UNC with the full expectation that Finn would require a transfusion. His body had been on a pretty regular pace of 3 weeks in which he was breaking apart his red blood cells to a point where his hemoglobin levels (6-7) would require a transfusion. We figured his levels would be somewhere in that range. Miraculously they were at 8.6! So no transfusion and we got to go home early. What does that mean?...we have no idea. We are scheduled to go back tomorrow and we will see where he is 4 weeks post transfusion. His color has been a little off the past few days, so if I had to guess, we would need to get a transfusion tomorrow. It is still encouraging to get some good news for once! We will know a whole lot more when we see tomorrows levels. Hopefully a miracle is taking place and his body is starting to correct itself. That's the small chance that we have been praying for all along. As my brother-in-law Dr. Michael always says, "sick children look sick, and Finn just does not look sick!". As you can see from the picture in the post, which was generously taken and given to us by Flashes of Hope at UNC. I promise I will post the results of tomorrow in a timely fashion, sorry for keeping people waiting on updates. Speaking of which here are two more: even though we didn't have the transfusion, we did go ahead with the tubes in his ears last Friday. The procedure went great and Dr. Byers told Craig that a bunch of fluid was released. Also the dates for the honorary Give Thanks for Finn Blood Drive are Nov. 19-20th (Mon & Tues of Thanksgiving). We will send out an email and will post on Facebook the directions on how Greensboro friends and family can participate. As always, thanks for everyone's continued prayers and support!

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