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Happy, Happy, Happy!
Grace sings this little Happy song at least once a day. She sang it in the hallway as we were leaving the apartment to go home. I have not yet managed to get a video of her singing it. Everybody is doing better now that we're all together. It's good to be home; it's good to not have to try to... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 10, 2024, 9:59 pm
Category: Grace
Homeward Bound!
We are headed home on Monday!   Grace will still have at least one clinic visit a week and depending on the labs that week, might have a second appointment, but we decided that for the sake of our entire family, we need to be home and it is worth driving back and forth as needed.... (More)
Posted by jondaley on April 6, 2024, 4:17 am
Category: Grace
Day +55
We went back to the clinic in the late morning after Grace threw up her NG tube.  She did manage to take her meds by mouth that morning, but she doesn't really like it.  They had tested her stool when she had so much diarrhea at her appointment the day before and it did come back... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 3, 2024, 8:44 pm
Category: Grace
Apartment Life
We are settling into our second week of being full-time in the apartment. Our schedule consists of: Adminstering meds 3 times a day and then washing all of the syringes and straws and flushes Keeping her central line clean twice a day ( Boston Children's says cleaning twice a day is... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 26, 2024, 9:13 pm
Category: Grace
Bone marrow aspirate today
This includes anesthesia and intubation and all that goes along with that. Please pray for her surgery and for the results. Thank you. An "aspirate" in this context means removing a small amount (7 ml in Grace's case usually) of the bone marrow fluid and a biopsy is removing a small chunk of... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 21, 2024, 5:13 am
Category: Grace
Pictures
She got her own badge. We got the news that we can leave! Exploring the apartment. Playing with Faith and Joy. Swinging at the park. (More)
Posted by joyful on March 19, 2024, 9:25 pm
Category: Grace
Home away from home
Grace did well her first night. I had a harder time because it was like having a young baby - changing diapers in the night; she did go on the potty. Jon and the older girls dropped Grace and me off at the clinic on their way home. Grace was not happy to be stuck in a clinic room. First... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 19, 2024, 6:52 pm
Category: Grace
Discharged!
We left the hospital at 5pm today and are "home" at our new apartment and working out this phase.  Lots of meds to organize and schedule.  Getting used to a quiet room, so now we can actually hear the feed machine, where I never really heard it before.   Heather will be... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2024, 10:03 pm
Category: Grace
Hospital Time
We've probably said it before, and anyone who has been in a hospital for any length of time knows that any time someone says "soon" that means 2-10 hours, and "tomorrow" means 1-3 days, etc.  So, even though I posted here that it could be Friday, I've been telling myself Monday, though as... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 15, 2024, 6:34 pm
Category: Grace
Discharge?
The doctors started talking about discharge last Friday and that continued on Monday.  They decided to turn off the continuous morphine and moving more of her medicines to her NG tube. I was pretty skeptical that she was going to tolerate only on occasional morphine and I expected her to... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 13, 2024, 5:30 am
Category: Grace
Day +27
Grace had a great day today, despite staying up until after midnight (I went to sleep, but I asked the nurse in the morning, and she stayed up reading her new book and trying to not let the nurses check her oxygen levels since that would involve taking away her light...) She came to rounds in... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 6, 2024, 11:34 pm
Category: Grace
Day +26
We have lots of good news to report. Grace has been improving the last couple of days.  Her abdomen measured 53.5 cm, the smallest it has been in weeks.  They have changed her cyclosporin from IV to NG (nasogastric) which is a step towards getting ready to be discharged.  The... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 5, 2024, 10:54 pm
Category: Grace
A step better
From Jon  "[Yesterday's ultrasound] didn't report too much that we didn't already know. There was a little fluid in her abdomen on that side, so I wasn't expecting much, but a fair bit came out last night, I think 100 mls in the last three drains. The fluid near her lungs is almost gone.... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 3, 2024, 11:53 am
Category: Grace
New Room
In addition to the drain being installed yesterday, yesterday was moving day.  They have all patients move every month to allow for the room to be completely cleaned.  From the few examples I've seen, that generally means moving to a nicer room, since they can pick the day when the... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 2, 2024, 7:22 am
Category: Grace
Engraftment, Drainage, and God Answers
The last couple of days have been tough, but today is looking up. At 2:00 this morning, Jon called me to say that her breathing was worse and they were considering bringing her up to the ICU. I called my sister, she prayed for us. 45 minutes later, Jon texted to say that they had increased her... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 1, 2024, 10:50 pm
Category: Grace
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