Praying for you all.
Keep your chins up and your faith strong.
Member of the Baby Greenie Support Group
OK, let’s start planning here. Since, this all started on the COTH and they are located in Middleburg, VA and Uppperville Horse Show, the oldest Horse Show in the USA is in VA, I think, we should have a huge party at the Upperville Horse Show in June 2003. They also have a leadline class and with our area being number one in sporthorses, I’m sure someone with a cute pony will donate his/her services for a leadline class for Baby Boy Aiden Hawk! And of course we know who the class winner will be! Any one in VA near us have a cute lead line pony for Aiden? 
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Prayers, prayers, and more prayers.
Stay strong Aiden, Lisa, and Joey. This, too, is another bump in the road.
I’ll be thinking of you.
There is nothing so grand as to fly on the back of a horse!I’ve been checking in all day too~ that’s great news! 
Our family had a special prayer at lunch today, and yes, we were all teary-eyed! 
Keep us updated Go Aiden! SUZ
~“Why is it that you PARK on a DRIVEway, but you DRIVE on a PARKway???”~
awww this is very exciting news!!!
I have had a horrible day, but it just got a million times brighter!
I knew you would make it baby Aiden!
We LOFF the Hawk family!
Just checking in with everyone in the waiting room. I echo what M. O’Connor said–this is where the faith part comes in. Joining hands with everyone and sending up heartfelt prayers.
Hey Lisa,Knowwonderwoman, Joey and Aiden! Haven’t been on much as I’ve been ill all week, but Mom has kept me apprised; I agree that the last 24 hours may just be the good rest that aids healing. Any of us who have had major surgery knows that under the best of circumstances, you just want to sleep the next few days post-op. Aiden the Lionheart has had THREE surgeries since Dec. 21. As long as his liver and kidney values are hanging in, rest is one of the best things for him. Sleep lets Nature and God perform their wonders. On you and Joey too ! I pray twice daily and in random prayers through my day. Remember strength and to pace yourselves and rest in all our love and prayer! And thank you for posting; it means so much to us at COTH. I will pray Aiden has a sweet night and you too!
love, June
Just about time to crank up the stereo and listen to Handel’s Messiah, eh?
Especially the chorus.
Unashamed member of the Arab clique…just settin’ on the Group W bench.
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Sounds like they’ve got him on a respirator, pumping the air into that particular lung to try to inflate it, while also having him hooked to a chest tube of some sort to drain the air/fluid from the chest cavity, to make room for the lung to reinflate. It’s also possible, from what I’m reading, that the respirator is delivering oxygen-rich air, rather than plain air.
Can you tell, when I’m nervous about something I do research??
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LOL, ZM, I do the SAME thing with the research! Of course, being a research analyst for a living prob. doesn’t help much. 
Regarding the lungs, I think you are right on target. I have not seen Aiden since the collapsed lung, but I think that is all accurate - he IS on a respirator, helping him breathe and pumping 100% oxygen into him (blood oxygenation if very low - 10% at one point). They also have a tube in his lungs to suck out fluid.
I have also had a collapsed lung, when I was younger - acutally happened at the barn (not from horse or accident, just noticed it there). Mine was from a pneumo thorax, which is air leaking outside of the lung into the chest cavity. They said I was at a 27% collapse, which on an x-ray made one lung a lot lighter than the other because all of the lung tissue is closer on top of itself becuase it’s less inflated. (Air shows up as black on an x-ray, so the less air and more compact the lung tissue, the whiter the lungs show up.)
I am fairly certain Aiden does not have air leaking as far as I know - for his type of collapse air just leaves through the esophogus like when you breathe out. It happened slowly (well - as compared to if you popped a balloon - that’s not what happened), and started last night with collapsing alveoli. (Alveoli are the tiny air sacks at the end of each air tube inside the lungs. The surface of alveoli is where oxygen and other gases filter into the blood. If you remember high school biology, they look like little clusters of grapes.) That progressed to an entire lung collapse - at what rate I’m not sure - and resulted in everything turning for the worse at a certain point. Why that has happened, they’re not sure. I assume that also makes re-inflating a challenge, since they are still trying to diagnose the problem.
In my case, they waited for the leak to close, then let the lung reinflate on its own with deep breathing. My BOL (blood oxygen level) was also down to 12% at one point, when I would fade in and out of conciousness. I do know the low BOL makes you feel terribly groggy, and out of it. Not to mention pain killers and other drugs on top. So, Baby Aiden is probably trying very hard to succeed in a very murky environment.
I’m not sure if any of that helps out at all, maybe helped me more than readers - eh, Zephyr?
I will keep you all posted with any information I get.
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So tell me again how the 40 Hour Standard was created? I think my boss was busy…
here’s to many, many happy days ahead
FlightCheck
~who has several ponies waiting for Aiden to grow up~
Best wishes!!!
~Miracles happen to those who are looking for them.~
Oh that SMILE!!! He looks absolutely wonderful!!! I haven’t been able to check in because of my computer going nuts for the last week. Please do continue to send us news of his recovery (and pics). If you don’t I will have serious Aiden withdrawls (as I’m sure many others will)! ~God Bless you~ You will always be in my thoughts and prayers!
Roar, baby…Roar! “Your in the arms of the angels…won’t you find some comfort there.”
Love, thoughts, prayers and jingles~
Natalie
“A horse is a horse of course of course”…This person obviously never met MY horse!
YEEEEAAAAHHHH! 
I have been checking whenever I could today looking for that post. So thrilled that Lionheart is going “home”.
Enjoy your special day Lisa.
WhiteTiger
PWBTB@WC (People who browse the BB at Work Clique)
Lisa, I am so glad that he is doing so well!!! The transplant success was the best Christmas present that I got! I returned from visiting relatives and the great news was waiting!! Go Aiden (who is absolutely adorable)!
Like someone said before, I think this thread has helped a lot of people with spirituality issues in their own lives. Each time I get depressed, stressed, or overwhelmed, I am reminded of the comment that someone made many many pages ago, about how God never gives you more burdens than you’re able to carry so long as you have faith in him, and I’m encouraged.
Let’s all believe that no new means all is well and everyone is getting some much-needed rest. It won’t help anyone to worry, just keep praying that The Good Lord is watching them all! I and my whole family wish you all a Blessed and Holy Christmas with heartfelt thanks for all our Blessings including this phenomenal group of loving, kind, compassionate friends. God Bless you all.
I haven’t the foggiest notion how to do this,but I’m learning!
Aiden…we are all with you in thought and prayer. And if this can move mountains, then you have it made!
OH Happy Day!!!
Lisa, what a precious gift for you! I can relate to the kids doing everything for daddy first. I could stand there all day staring at the baby and the first time I go to the bathroom he does something monumentous.
Next you’ll get that 2 little bottom teeth smile (I think that’s the cutest)
Spellers of the world untie
You guys wouldn’t beleive this, but he is actually laughing at us today. He is laughing!!! Although he is on the methadone still, it is such a low dose that he is barely groggy. I got the first laugh!!! Daddy was so jeolus, but he always gets the first everything, It is my turn.
It is amazing. It is almost like having a newborn all over again, even the part where I am a little scared to hold him. Earlier I forgot almost where I was and just grabbed him. I started acting silly and he just laughed! I kept doing it and he looked at me like: “This is the Mommy I know! Why have you been so quiet?? Let’s play!!” I just cried and cried! Of course tears of joy. Rivers full of tears of joy.
For the first time in his entire life, I am not afraid of loosing him. I am not afraid. I almost feel like the “newborn” I am holding is the one I had asked for 8 months ago, but better.
I was emailing Fred, and I told that it has taken a baby to remind me about what I have on the inside. I guess we take for granted our own power, and strength. Aiden, (and all babies), is so pure and young, he doesn’t know anything but power and strength. He hasn’t been taught by others that he isn’t good enough or important enough to make a difference. He is so close to God that he knows he has the strength of a 100 LIONS. I guess we can learn a lesson ffrom Babies and children. I know I have “found myself” through the journey Aiden takes me on.
Anyway, I am going to go so I can watch my beautiful baby smile at me though his big blue eyes. No more yellow. Halleluia!!
Spot: A social scretary?? Will I have to schedule myself time with him? Between him and his Aunties and uncles I bet I will have to be fit in to his very BUSY schedule. 
Lisa
Save a life, be an organ donor
It is so easy to be brought down by the ups and downs in life, but by knowing you, Joey, and Aiden, I have been able to put the minor frustrations that maybe seemed large to the side and concentrate on a bigger picture. This has been the most marvelous Christmas gift–the answered prayer(s) of so many. God has blessed not only you Lisa, but everyone on this board by his gift of Aiden. What a wonderful wonderful gift this precious baby with a new life is.
Merry Christmas
Good morning little guy! And good morning to the Hawk family! What wonderful news to wake up to~ I just HAD to check in first thing What a strong fighter you are, Aiden~ keep going! Good thoughts: “Goodlivergoodliver” Got to do the Christmas delivery and last minute stuff today~ but will check in whenever I can and keep up the jingles and good vibes wherever I go…Yay! SUZ
~Proud member of the Baby Aiden Cyber Support Group~
“KICK ON!”
