Please pray for Jong's travels

Jong is traveling the next two weeks and landed in London Heathrow right before today's events regarding the terrorist plans to bomb planes from London to the U.S. He got stuck on the runaway for many hours but is now safely in London. However, he needs to fly out of London tomorrow back to the U.S. and will be flying to many cities in the U.S. Please pray for safe and smooth travels for him so that he can take care of all of the business he needs to (and he doesn't need to go back for the same things again after coming back to Tokyo!).

The nurse asked me to try bottle feeding Isaac tonight. Although for some reason she made a hungry and crying Isaac wait for 30 minutes before she told us that (with the bottle ready to go and us waiting for her to start the feed for at least 10-15 minutes). So by the time Isaac got to eat, he got tired quite quickly. The nurse finished the tail end of the bottle feeding because Isaac was so tired and his SpO2 levels were dropping again.

Isaac seems really tired these days. I don't really know what is happening to him when we are not there but I suspect its the same things that happen to other babies whose parents are not there when we are visiting. Other babies are often ignored and left to cry for a very long time when they get hungry even when their SpO2 levels drop and all their alarms are going off. Even if Isaac is not being ignored, all the other alarms (which are set to a REALLY loud level in GCU for some reason) are probably preventing Isaac from resting properly.

Although we are very grateful to Toho Hospital's doctors and nurses for taking such good care of Isaac when he was in NICU. The conditions in GCU are really not very good. Please continue to pray that Isaac can be discharged sooner rather than later so that he can be properly taken care of at home by us. However, I have asked the doctor to give me one month's notice before Isaac's discharge so that I can have time to arrange for a short leave from work so until I hear from the doctor, I always know that is at least another month ahead of us.

I didn't get to take good pictures of Isaac today because of the feeding and his crying.

Thanks very much for your prayers,

Sonia