triumphal entry

my last post was asking you to pray for marius (and mom chantal)
marius had a rocky week. he went back to surgery the same night as his lip repair and received a trach b/c he was still having trouble with his lungs being clamped down made worse by getting blood clots in his breathing tube. by day one post-op, we had him off the breathing machine but then we had to wait on his little stressed body to recover in order to get the trach out. first attempt...failed miserably. second attempt a couple days later...ok but not great and we ended up putting it back in 12 hours later. third attempt...he did it!

today, we removed his central line and the tracheal flap suture and moved him from the ICU to the ward. mom chantal carried him down the hallway from ICU to A-ward and the moment we stepped out of ICU, a praise song spilled from her lips. she walked the entire way singing praise and then into A-ward where she knelt by his bed and lifted him up praising God in song and then prayer. (a translator told me she was praising God...this was one thing i didn't need interpretation of!) it was a beautiful moment and tears of joy were falling. =)

well done my little rockstar and more importantly, thank You Father for Your touch on him.