"I'm going home...back to the place where I belong..."

We're packed up and ready to go tonight! Max is doing great and VERY excited about going home tomorrow! Alex is equally excited about seeing his big brother and even Ellee seems to know something is coming. She kept talking about "Maxi" and the "ho-pi-tal" (as she says it) this morning. We are now counting down the hours and planning a family celebration tomorrow night!

One of Max's doctors told me tonight that he is "a rockstar" and his PCA said that it's the quickest that she has ever seen someone released after transplant! We are extremely thankful that Max has done so well so far and that we are getting to go home and be all together!

We will probably be back down here for most of the day on Tuesday and/or Wednesday at the Clinic/Day Hospital as Max will need some infusions of medications that only they can give him down here. I'm sure we'll probably be back on Thursday or Friday too (or possibly both) for monitoring, etc. I'll get the initial schedule of appointments tomorrow and will know more at that point when we will be here and for how long each week, etc. But, at least we'll be sleeping in our own beds and spending A LOT more time at home together!

As we've told you on the blog, Max's favorite singer with whom he shares a birthday is Chris Daughtry. His favorite song by Daughtry is "Home" and it is extremely fitting for tomorrow's occasion. We will be listening to it on the way home and plan to jam out all together to it also once we get home. It's been Max's plan since before we were admitted here.

There is a fabulous music therapist down here at Children's that has visited Max several times and made a recording of him singing "Home" with Daughtry. I've tried to attach it for you all to enjoy and to play tomorrow in honor of Maxer's homecoming, but I can't get it to work. Maybe it will work once we are home tomorrow. He did a great job singing it...knew all the words! Maybe he'll be a singer some day!

The next few weeks will be another big adjustment for us again but, a much better one, being that we will be re-adjusting to being at home all together again. We will continue to update you all regularly, I promise. Hopefully we'll get a lot more of Alex and Ellee on here too!

Thanks, again for all your support, love and prayers! As Daughtry would say..."these places and these faces are getting old....I'm going home!"

Love,
Kristi (and Matt, Max, Alex and Ellee)