Exciting News!

For those of you who do not know, Jacob had a Swallow Study done at the Children's Hospital here in Arizona this past Monday. It was the first swallow study he has had in over a year. The last one was at Primary Children's in Salt Lake. Anyways, we are very excited to announce that Jacob passed his swallow tests!! He is swallowing normally now! He did not aspirate at all. In all of his other swallow studies in the past, he would aspirate immediately after taking a drink. Brad and I have suspected for a while that he may have grown out of this mystery medical condition but we did not want to get our hopes up too high. Jacob has been asking for and chugging down drinks of water, milk and juice, usually through a straw for several months now. I had convinced myself that he was still aspirating and his body had just gotten used to having liquid in his lungs and that was why he was not getting sick anymore. However, deep inside I knew that things had finally changed for the better. So that is our exciting news! Now we just have to continually offer Jacob more and more drinks by straw and cup until he drinks enough by mouth that we don't even have to use the G-button anymore. I think I will be even more excited to announce when his G-button has been removed! I just want to thank everyone for all of your love, support and prayers over the last 2 1/2 years. I don't think this would have happened without the faith and prayers of all of our friends and family as well as our own.