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Ella and the Lizard
August 9 – Ella was so scared of this little guy but finally warmed up to him enough to hold him for a couple of minutes. Thought you guys would like to see… I’ll be posting more photos over the next week from here in Florida.
Vacation
We’re heading out to Florida for a week tomorrow topped off by a couple days in Atlanta to go see the Braves. This will be Ella’s first plane ride and she is excited. I’ll post throughout the week. Love you guys!
Fun at the Park
2:00pm – Ella had the appointment at Dr. Yieser’s today. He thought everything looked really good including the chest tube incisions! We are very thankful that God answered our prayers. After the appointment we picked up some lunch and went down to Smothers Park on the river. I forgot to bring the camera, but Ella had…
Chest Tube Incisions Looking Better
Ella had a great day today. She is doing well even though she has been confined to this house for over 1 week now; what a trooper! Tomorrow she will be visiting Dr. Yeiser for a checkup. The chest tube incisions are starting to look a lot better. We’ll get Dr. Yeiser’s opinion tomorrow around…
Baby Steak
Ella has been doing well today. Her chest tube incisions look better but we still are concerned about infection. We will have Dr. Yeiser look at them on Wednesday when she visits him for a check-up. Hopefully he will let us know what we need to do to get those taken care of. Most of…
Okay… Okay!
8:00am – By popular demand, I’ll continue updating this blog on a regular basis throughout the day. I didn’t realize so many of you were still reading until I looked at the stats and had a few people ask why I hadn’t updated it. So I’ll continue to keep the site going. After all, there’s…
Doing Wonderful
Ella Grace is doing wonderful. She is playing as hard as she can and just happy to be home. It’s fun to have conversations with her talking about going to the hospital and surgery. She has a great attitude about the whole thing. Last night she got a new pet from Uncle Jon Jon, a…
Status Update
Things are going really well at home today. We slept until around 10:00 only waking once to take all the medication. Ella Grace is down to just Tylenol, blood pressure medication, and a fluid medication. Not too bad! She has been playing hard all day. Usually at this point, Ella would have taken 2 naps. …
We’re Home
Got home a couple of hours ago. Had a nice ride and Ella is loving being in her ‘big’ bed now. I’m working on a recap and I’ll post it a little later with a few photos.