Friday, September 24, 2004 11:28 PM CDT

I am happy to say that Aidan is home and flourishing. He gets quieter in the hospital, I notice. He stayed quiet all the way home in the car. But as soon as we got home, he started talking and laughing in his usual way. "Hey Mom, where are you??" he is shouting right now (he's in his toddler bed 3 feet away from me, so he isn't really wondering!).

Aidan's little brother Paddy is taking a little longer to snap back from his disrupted routine. He was cranky all afternoon, and is still a little cranky and restless now that he is sleeping! I guess most toddlers would be a little cranky after riding in a car seat for 240 miles in two days!

The preliminary results of the biopsy were good. No acute rejection, no hepatitis or easily diagnosable disease like CMV or EBV (both innocuous for most people, but more serious for the immune-suppressed). The liver tissue is going to San Francisco to be analyzed more thoroughly, so if he is having a mild rejection we will know in the next week. Anyway, for now all the news is good.

So, this weekend -- Aidan gets to go to his grandma's cabin and ride in the boat! We are so happy that this was such a short and easy hospital visit for him. We felt the prayers. Aidan prayed for all those who have prayed for him -- at least, I prayed, and he folded his hands together and listened.

Aidan is shouting, "Hey Mom -- I need covers!!" so I'd better close this journal entry now -- please look at "past journal entries" if you want the details of how the biopsy went, and missed reading them yesterday --