We're Home

After five days in the hospital, they finally let us out on Friday around noon. Robbie is doing great and it is really weird changing a dirty diaper and not worrying about a colostomy bag. He is such a tough little customer, just cruising around like he didn't have anything done to him a week ago. On Friday, after he got out, we were able to head over to the world famous Cincinnati Zoo. As we walked up we saw that the zoo closed at 5:00 p.m., which gave us an hour, and it started dumping rain. After a 15 minute delay in the Zoo Store, we headed out and were able to see some really neat animals. Robbie would get so excited when he would see each animal, espeically the wolves, gorillas, lions and polar bears. Because of the short time on Friday, we made sure we went back Saturday morning before we headed out. The pictures above are from Saturday. Even though it was a little cooler, Robbie had a great time and really seemed to enjoy all the animals.

After the zoo, we cleaned up our room at the Ronald McDonald House and got on the road about 1:30 p.m. We were able to drive to the west side of St. Louis on Saturday and Robbie was great in the backseat. We then drove the rest of the way in on Sunday and were able to get back around 2:00 p.m. We took a nice long walk with Robbie in his wagon and went to the grocery store. We are now trying to get back into our routine and hope that we can have a few months of normalcy before we head out to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins to see about Robbie's bladder. Thank you for all the prayers and support during this past surgery, it really helps us out a great deal.