#slow progress is progress

He's been like this for like five minutes now and that's very exciting because it's the first time we've seen him engage any voluntary muscles besides his eyelids since we brought him home. He's been super out of it the last two days as a consequence of being put under general anesthesia while he had hardly any red blood cells. He's on that stack of books so we can move him around the tank to keep him the right temperature without picking him up and disturbing him. Him holding up his head and moving his tongue means I can hopefully syringe-feed him later today, which makes me very happy because he hasn't had any food since Saturday.

Late night run and dang! am I glad I talked myself into getting it done- I was able to RUN in the green (my heart rate zone 3) for the WHOLE 30 MINUTES!!!!! Before, each time I would move from walking to running, my Heart Rate would go right into yellow, no matter how slow I jogged. I’d have to do constant stints of walking/jogging through the whole workout to stay in this zone before. I’m so happy!!! My little lungs and my little heart CAN do great things! ❤️💪🏻

Yesterday I let my drunk self convince me that I absolutely needed to eat a whole bag of Muddy Buddies and a Twix after a dinner of Neapolitan pizza. 😬 I was super bummed because I've stayed strictly low carb for over a month and have been making great progress. But sometimes you have to take a step back and look at where you started, compared to what you've achieved so far. Sometimes all you need is a photo op to show you not all is lost!

We're back baby!!!