Our Departure may be Delayed

We have been waiting for the weekend to pass, so we can go home. Mitchell reached his feeding goal at 1 a.m on Saturday & tolerated the progression well. Since we are a distance from the hospital, his surgeon wanted us to wait until Monday to leave.
Mitchell has had a little activity today, & it has been good that we are still here. This morning his new g-tube came out, apparently due to a faulty balloon; he took a little trip to radiology this morning & returned with a nice new tube. Wasn't fun for him, but he recovered nicely.
I think I mentioned last week that he had a small amount of blood in a few diapers; well, this morning it was more substantial. They re-visited the idea of a milk intolerance & placed him back on formula. It will take several days to transition and establish if it will make a difference.
He is being monitored, and they will recheck his labs in the morning. We should be able to go home once the bleeding has improved as long as his blood counts remain stable. His abdominal scans have remained negative as well as a G-tube study that was performed today. It is possible that the problem was exacerbated by a blood thinner used to flush his PICC line (alternative to an IV).
Thank you for your continued prayers; Maybe our next update will be telling you that we are headed home.