12/10 5:00am It begins. I’m on my phone. Not terribly nervous, but can’t sleep. Waiting for the numbers to click to 5am. It finally does, and the alarm rings. Okay. We’ve got this. We dress, with terse words between Amy’s Dad and I. Snipping and back biting happen, stress – Read more…
So, here we are. The long awaited day, here at last. (Almost!) After dropping off Amy’s Little Brother at preschool, we got in the car, and headed to Stanford. (We are so unbelievably thankful for our amazing support system at home!) Moments into the trip, we heard choking, then retching Read more…
Okay, so we have a plan. Stanford called. (Okay, I got impatient and called.) So, the plan: Surgery is on Tuesday, December 10th. The plan is to spend 1-2 nights in the hospital, so hopefully we will be discharged on Thursday. We had some room to play with pre-op, so Read more…
It’s hard to put words to seeing your baby in massive amounts of pain and having no way of taking that pain away. I’m Daddy, I’m supposed to fix everything for her. Amy is very much so a Daddy’s girl, I am admittedly wrapped around her little finger. I would Read more…
2/21 5:03am. Surgery day. Couldn’t sleep, so Amy’s Daddy and I talked until 1, when we finally could sleep. Now here I am. AWAKE. I’m not supposed to be awake for an hour and a half. Sleep is impossible. ? My stomach is a tight knot. Last night she suddenly needed to cry herself Read more…
Time to head off on our hospital adventure! We are leaving now, and headed to our hotel in Sunnyvale. (Ronald McDonald House was full.) Amy will be the second case tomorrow, with surgery planned to begin about 8:30am. Thank you to everyone who has helped us prepare for this- especially Read more…
Someday… someday you will read this letter. Someday you may ask me why. Someday you may ask me how. Someday, I may gloss over something that would have been important to you. To avoid that, I’m writing this letter to you today, and putting it in your baby book for Read more…
Amy has been having a rough few days. She’s had a fever, a deep cough, tummy troubles, and generally been not well. She can not not not not be sick! So after dealing with this for awhile, I decided to take her to her pediatrician to check her out. Thank Read more…
Okay, here we go, we’re on our way! First we have an appointment with Child Life at the hospital, then we’ll be headed to see Dr. Hoffinger to see what the surgical plan is. At the hospital, Amy loved playing with all the toys and coloring in the same-day surgery Read more…
Just got the call! Amy’s surgery will be happening at Stanford on February 21st! We will be in the hospital only one night, so we will be asking not to have any visitors while we’re working on pain management. ❤️ I can’t believe it! I’m so excited!!! Wait… 3 WEEKS? That’s Read more…