After approx. a week in the hospital, our son Aiden was well enough for us to take home.  It had been a miracle - he was brought back to life, his collapsed lung had healed and his situation had improved significantly.  We brought him home and he cried a lot worrying us about his collapsed lung but he never seemed to have any problems.  His eyes were dark brown and so it wasn't noticed immediately but he had slightly different shaped pupils that became more visible as days went on.  We setup an appointment with our family doctor and he setup a subsequent appointment with an eye specialist at CHEO whom we meet a few weeks later (a bit of delays in Canada to see any doctor especially a specialist).  The eye specialist looked extremely concerned at us and told us that our son had a rare form of collaboma - it's a birth defect that affects the eyes.  It turns out, the type that he had brought a high risk that he would have significant sight impairement and possibly even blindness in both eyes.  This type of collaboma often times results in the retinas not even being attached and surgery can help the retina situation (albeit with risks) but no surgery can fix the impairement.  Because Aiden was too young to respond to questions or give us any clear sign as to what he could and could not see we were left in the dark for several months to come as to how bad things really were...  today we know that Aiden sees fine and so far so good - it's literally a miracle and the odds of the outcome we've had is 1 in a million.  He doesn't even need glasses at this point!  Well that's a summary of our first month with Aiden and we've had many challenges since (some equally as scary) but I'll blog about those later... it's very tough to talk about these things and takes time for me to spill out into a blog especially since I'm not much of a writer.  I hope you all enjoy my read and I hope this does help offer some form of support for anyone going through a rough time - hang tight and wait it out - live in the present and try not to worry about the what if's - we're given one life to live and each second that passes is gone forever - don't let life pass you by.  Enjoy and treasure each and every moment whether it's positive or negative.  Often time negative situations are challenges that only make us stronger and more aware of our capabilities and that we can overcome and accomplish anything we put our heads to.