Thirteen Things About Gus

Thirteen things you may not have known about Gus...

• His real name is Henry Larsen
• His favorite show was the Doodle Bops
• He liked to sleep on his right side
• He has had 9 surgeries
• His favorite book was "Lunch" by Denise Fleming
• He had a huge meltdown Christmas morning!
• His tears were yellow
• He would go through @ 20 diapers a day
• He loved to have his hair washed but not his body!
• He would have trouble bending in the mornings
• One night I failed to turn his TPN pump on and I starved him...but he forgave me! (I thought I had turned it on but the button had not been pressed hard enough...I didn't just forget him!)
  
• He loved to have his central line dressing changed...he liked the smell of the chloraprep.

and...

• This is gross but pretty incredible...so says his surgeon...Gus passed 5 of his sutures from his bowel resection!! And we still have them! lol!!