Cleared For Take Off....

More or less. So the visit to pulmonary went well. With not much more information than we previously had and after a string of questions and answers the docs put their heads together and came up with this: Let him eat cake! All right, maybe cake is a bit of a stretch but you get the basic idea. ('Let him eat mashed peas' just didn't have the same effect.)

So we're to schedule an appointment with the swallow specialist so she can come up with a game plan for this eating thing. Who knew you needed a game plan to eat? Well apparently if we go too fast he will aspirate, if we feed him the wrong things he will aspirate, if we let him drink thin liquids he will aspirate. So there is actually a bit of a science to the whole thing. Not to mention someone actually has to teach him to drink. Really. After 15 months of no liquids Jackson has no idea what to do with a straw (which is how they teach him to drink). So we;re off to the drawing board to comeup with a plan of attack.

With any luck he'll be off of tube feeding by the fall. Yipee!