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Saturday 2/26/2011

We've made it home! Ethan recieved two breathing treatments through the night and by the morning he sounded much better - no weezing.

The attempted to take more blood early this morning, but weren't successful. This afternoon I told them that had 1 more attempt, and that was it. Luckily there were able to get enough blood for all of the labs. We were cleared before we heard anything about them, so hopefully everything was stable.

The nurses at St. Mary's are great, but we were glad to say goodbye. Hopefully it will be much longer than six months before we see them again.

Thank you for your continued prayers. We are home, but not neccessarily in the clear. I am afraid that Ethan will re-catch this from me, as I am now sick. So, tonight will be a night of cleaning and disinfecting the whole house. It is so hard to not give my little guy tons of kisses - but I'm trying. We are so thankful to be home. When we got home I put him on the floor and he just started playing and rolling over! I think he was more excited than Mommy and Daddy to be home.

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