3 weeks, 6 days post-op (McFarland Bypass done 2/21/2018) A little rainy today, but we’re going to try and take the train anyway! (Baby’s 1st train ride!) Taking the train was so fun, and the food wasn’t bad either. I Read more…
So, this is the walkway in front of my house. After taking the wheelchair up the steps yesterday (lame!) we decided I would like to build a cost-effective, temporary, wooden wheelchair ramp. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips? I Read more…
6 days post-op (McFarland Bypass done 2/21/2018) Today is our first post-op appointment. We need to get x-rays, and orders say through the cast. However, we might be getting a new cast today anyway, because somebody has already started walking Read more…
We’ve only been home from the hospital for a day, but Amy is happy, and learning to roll in her new wheelchair!
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, 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 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 Read more…
Guess what happened today? A care package for surgery arrived, just in time! It’s from one of Amy’s CPT friends, one who shares her doctor. She calls her leg her “lucky” leg, and everything in the package had a Lucky 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 Read more…
Amy is a little better today. Hopfully she’ll kick it this weekend. Right now she’s playing doctor with her brother. ❤
