Day Three of Cory in hospital

Well Cory is good and bored in the hospital and ready to go stir crazy if he dont get out soon. He really cant walk around much due to the chest tube and so has to sit or lay in bed, not fun whichever one he chooses. The pain pills also make him sleepy so he is sleeping most of the day also. Today he had to go and get a Cat Scan on both his lungs to rule out any problems and sadly we didnt get the news we wanted. It seems that his chest wall is deformed and because of that it has caused his lungs (both) to be deformed also. It is also im sure why his heart had problems at birth and why he had open heart surgery by age 4. Pretty much what it means is that his lungs (one or the other) can collaspe for no reason at any time. They might not or he might go many many years before one of them does. But it could also happen sooner then that. Theres really no way of knowing one way or the other. There is surgery to fix it but as a rule they dont do that unless it becomes a problem. The doctor said that some doctors will wait until the lungs collaspe three or four times before they do surgery, but he as a rule wont let a lung do it a second time. On the second time he will go in and do surgery rather then try and fix it with the chest tube a second time. He also said if it dont fix itself this time then they will have to do surgery. He told Cory that if it fixes itself this time that he can lead a normal life but of course theres always the risk and worry that something could happen again. That will always be with him now. Its not something that will fix itself. He said that he can never do scuba diving or sky diving and when we mentioned that Cory wanted to join the miltary and do sky diving he said thats theres no way. Cory is very sad about this and he told me thats all he wants to do and i feel very very bad for him tonight. The tube is still working which is great news, they are still seeing air come out of it which means it hasnt sealed itself yet and the doctor said if theres no air by morning they can try capping off the tube (without removing it) and see if the lung can work okay. If theres still air he might have to have surgery. So, its a very sad evening tonight and so many decisions will be made tomorrow morning that are so important. We are praying that he can have the tube capped off in morning and by some miracle his lung will have healed and will work and he can have the tube out tomorrow night and come home. Jay and Ralph were going to do a blessing tomorrow, Jay lives in AF and with tending the baby and school cant get down till tomorrow evening after school, so we made the decison to have our neighbour go back to the hospital with Ralph tonight to do a blessing. We feel very strongly that we shouldnt wait till tomorrow, that so many decisons will be made first thing in the morning and Cory is so sad tonight that we feel he really needs this blessing tonight. We are just waiting for Will and they will head on over to the hospital. Luckily its just three minutes from our home. Myself? Well i held it together all day and for the past three days but did have a cry when i got home this evening. One of the worse things for a mother is seeing there child hurting (in all ways) and not being able to do anything about it. He had so many dreams to go into the miltary ( i admit not something i wanted him to do) and this has really hit him hard. That plus all the fear of whats happening to him and being totally bored out of his mind there. I really am hoping that tomorrow brings the news we want to hear. Im not going to go back tonight with them for the blessing for the main reason i dont want Cory to see my red eyes. I dont want him to worry that there might be something we havnt told him, which isnt the case, he knows it all, the good and bad, but i just dont want him worrying more during the night then he might be already.
Anyway keep him in your prayers. We are postive that tomorrow is going to be a good day and things will go the way we want it too and Cory can come home.