It's Time for Ammon to Bulk Up!

This Tuesday Ammon goes back into the hospital for another important surgery. This Tuesday Ammon will be receiving a G-tube or feeding tube to better help him get the vitamins, nourishment, and liquids that he needs on a daily basis. With his medical conditions it has made it difficult for him to put down alot of food, and especially drink liquids, even thicker liquids. We went to a class on Friday at Primary's to learn how to use the tube, clean it, replace it, etc. Let me tell you, we've done the oxygen, the monitors, and half a dozen other things, but there is something about this tube that is a little more unnerving than all the rest. I mean we are pretty good at all this medical stuff at this point, especially when Ammon came home from the NICU as a baby at about 4 pounds with oxygen, monitors, the works. We are always telling the doctors, "Just let us take him home, we got all this medical stuff covered." But this feels a little different. It is the completely right answer at this point, but it will take some weeks to get comfortable with. We are especially not looking forward to the recovery period for Ammon, it is a very painful process for a couple weeks. It's especially hard because Ammon has been laughing so much over the past week and we are seeing alot more of the real Ammon again. Tonight we had him laughing so hard for over an hour that we had to take breaks so he would have a moment to catch his breathe. Anyhow, it goes without asking at this point, but please keep Ammon in your prayers for the next little while, he's about to have a rough go of it again.

We've had a lot of questions about the Buddy Walk and Buddy 5K. Again, we'd love to have you all there, even those that only know Ammon through this blog (please don't be shy, just come). We'd love to meet you and show great support to Ammon. Please see the post below to sign up online and be one of Ammon's Heroes! Thank you again to everyone, and we can't wait to see you all in two weeks at the Buddy Walk!