Day 31 (July 25) – Day 36 (July 30)

After some time, his kidneys started to work on their own!  Success!  When all the extra fluid was out of his belly; however, we realized his liver was quite swollen.  You could actually see it protruding from his belly.  While partially damaged, his liver had started to heal itself.  Scott and I felt that all the medications were slowly destroying his little body.  We requested he be taken off all but pain medication.  Day by day, Ian was slowly looking better.  He started to open his eyes, and he moved around a lot more!  Scott and I went home for the first time to sleep the night.  I cried the whole way home because it was the first time in Ian’s life that I was spending the night away from him.