Tuesday was a fun day. Jesse, Hunter and I went to Grandma Evans and picked up Tyler and Deb and went to Carl's Jr. The kids played for about 2 hours and Deb and I had a chance to visit. It's hard to keep up on events when you live out of town, so it was fun to have time to visit. Later Melissa, her boys and Kristin, Deb and Cindy came to my house for dinner. Fun time.
Gramps got home from the hospital today and slept the afternoon away. Grams was pretty tired herself.
Friday will be a big day for Baby Gracie. That is the day they plan on closing her chest cavity. Right now with it being open, they can remove the patch and change things, tighten, clean, remove swelling basically do what ever it takes to keep her stable, but on Friday they close that cavity and then it won't be easy to manage her heart.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
When it rains it pours
Baby Gracie is getting stronger every hour, it seems that she is now breathing on her own without much help. Michele said "Gracie is down to 30% oxygen and her chest x-ray today looks better than yesterday." We are not out of the woods, but she is improving.
On a sadder note, Phil's dad, Larry, suffered a heart attack last night. He is in the hospital and is in stable condition for the time being. I will post again as new information becomes available.
I am still sick and Larry's condition doesn't help my stress level go down; and it is raining in Boise right now. Conference is good, God is good and we are grateful for life.
On a sadder note, Phil's dad, Larry, suffered a heart attack last night. He is in the hospital and is in stable condition for the time being. I will post again as new information becomes available.
I am still sick and Larry's condition doesn't help my stress level go down; and it is raining in Boise right now. Conference is good, God is good and we are grateful for life.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Gracie made it through the night.
I just heard the great news. Baby Gracie made it through the night. Of course there are still concerns about her lungs, but she made it through the night. We are so happy at our house.
What a day April 4th has been
Here's the quilt I have been working on as I wait to hear the
outcome of baby Gracie. I spent a few hours peacing the quilt together. I don't have a definate pattern, other than one quilt block will be plad, the next one will be plain. I have ended up getting sick. I have a bad sore throat and very conjested probably because of the stress of baby Gracie. I was going to run errands Friday but the not knowing what was going to happen kept me home quilting and being physically sick. I still don't know how Gracie did during the night, but I will post again when I know something.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Quilting and Baby Gracie
March 31, 2008
Needless to say my quilting is coming along. It helps pass the time away as Baby Gracie is still in critical condition. Saturday they were going to take her off life support and let her heart do the work, but the moment they did that the heart beat was too weak and the blood pressure went way down, so they immediately put her back on life support. They are looking at all the possible complications as to why her heart beat isn't stronger. They went back in her chest, adjusted the valve, coterized a small bleed, and discovered her thyroid was low, so they fixed all these issues and will try on Tues or Wed to take her off life support again.
So my house is clean and my quilt is coming along. I just about have all the fabric cut out. I am winging it since I don't know how big to make it or even what it will be used for, I just needed to get my mind off of Baby Gracie. Off to house work I go, an ever constant vigil we do.
Needless to say my quilting is coming along. It helps pass the time away as Baby Gracie is still in critical condition. Saturday they were going to take her off life support and let her heart do the work, but the moment they did that the heart beat was too weak and the blood pressure went way down, so they immediately put her back on life support. They are looking at all the possible complications as to why her heart beat isn't stronger. They went back in her chest, adjusted the valve, coterized a small bleed, and discovered her thyroid was low, so they fixed all these issues and will try on Tues or Wed to take her off life support again.
So my house is clean and my quilt is coming along. I just about have all the fabric cut out. I am winging it since I don't know how big to make it or even what it will be used for, I just needed to get my mind off of Baby Gracie. Off to house work I go, an ever constant vigil we do.
Getting ready to go Swimming.
Today the kids announced to me that it was time to go swimming, so we came up with a way for them to get ready for swimming. We put on their swim suits and life jackets, filled up the big tub and let them practice floating and making bubble faces. they had a great time, and for the last 3 days they have done this.
In Fact today at 7am Hunter comes in and woke me up and said Mom I need to get in the big tub right now so I can practice swimming. It's almost summer.
March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My roller coaster
March 26, 2008. I am on an emotional roller coaster. Baby Gracie did well during surgery, but that night her heart stopped at 1:30 am. They were able to do CPR and then get her on a machine that is keeping her alive. At this time anything could happen. She has a 50/50 chance of pulling through this. Yesterday they gave her a name and a blessing in the hospital. Mom says the blessing was very sweet and very full of love for this little one. We don't know her future but we do know that she is loved very much on both sides of the veil. Tom and Michele are at witts end. They finally got some sleep last night. Today Michele is having a very hard day. She put a poem on her blog (tom, my brothers blog). If you want to see the play by play check out their blog. They have a lot of pictures of this little angel.
Hunter seems to be oblivious to how I am feeling because the angrier I get the more distructive he gets, so I dropped them off at Grandma Evans and told her good luck and I will come back when I can be sure I won't kill Hunter. I went shopping and bought material to do a quilt like the one Melissa showed me how to do. This will be my second quilt. I just needed to distract me and sewing will be that distraction.
I just want to cry. I dont' know how the Baby Gracie story will turn out and it is so hard to watch my Mom, Dad, Tom and Michele go through this. If she wasn't so darn cute and didn't have such a precious disposition about her, but when you look at her and she looks deep into your soul you just cry and wonder what her future will hold.
Hunter seems to be oblivious to how I am feeling because the angrier I get the more distructive he gets, so I dropped them off at Grandma Evans and told her good luck and I will come back when I can be sure I won't kill Hunter. I went shopping and bought material to do a quilt like the one Melissa showed me how to do. This will be my second quilt. I just needed to distract me and sewing will be that distraction.
I just want to cry. I dont' know how the Baby Gracie story will turn out and it is so hard to watch my Mom, Dad, Tom and Michele go through this. If she wasn't so darn cute and didn't have such a precious disposition about her, but when you look at her and she looks deep into your soul you just cry and wonder what her future will hold.
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