2 days later

We are back in Birmingham. The 'croup' hasn't gotten any better, worse actually. Dr. Woolley says we will have to give him a tracheotomy so he can breathe. WHAT???? Handing my 9 week old baby over to get a trach was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. That was the longest 30 minutes of my life. But then....great news!!! They found a hemangioma (yes, this was good news this time, it meant they knew what was blocking his airway) and it was small enough to use a CO2 laser on, meaning NO TRACH!!! The laser was broken that day, so we spent the 2nd weekend in a row in the hospital waiting for his first laser surgery.

The first surgery went great, Bryce is a trooper with anesthesia and they got 30% of the hemangioma.