Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. We will be spending time with both our families over the next few days and are really looking forward to all the time together. We are excited about Landrum's first experience and watching her enjoy all the wrapping paper!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Treatment

Here is Landrum getting her treatment... she is getting better about taking it. A sweet friend lent us some Baby Einstein dvds and so as a treat Landrum gets to watch them during her treatments. It really does help her forget she is wearing a mask and makes the 8 minutes go a lot smoother!

Monday, December 15, 2008

The Dreaded RSV etc...

Landrum has RSV - she has actually had it all week. We found out she had the virus last Monday but she was really rather well - no real symptoms, so the doctor just told us to watch her closely to see if her status changed. Over the next few days she slowly got worse and worse until now she sounds like she has been a chain smoker for 30 years. Nice stuff. So Jared stayed home with her this morning and took her back in to the doctor. She now has to have breathing treatments every 4 hours -even in the middle of the night - for the next 24 hours. Then we will keep up a 4 a day regimen for the next 5-8 days... and she is also on an antibiotic for secondary bacteria. Good grief. Needless to say we will remain shut in the house a little longer. We might go crazy before this is all over.

On another note - Jared's mom went back into the hospital at Baptist this morning for her second round of chemo. This starts what they call the consolidation therapy. She will have chemo today, wednesday and friday and then will get to go home on friday. She should be home for 6 weeks before she has to come back into the hospital again. She was feeling well but not looking forward to a week in the hospital! you can also keep up with her progress at her caring bridge site. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/debbieyates

Here are some other tidbits of information I have learned as of late: 1. There is a house in our neighborhood that has lots and lots of lights and apparently they are coordinated with the music on 107. 1 (or something) on the radio... we will have to check this out sometime this week. 2. There is a really great santa (with free photo and loads of activities for the kiddies) at Bass Pro - we made our first visit to the outdoor wonderland this past week for Landrums first photo with Santa.

Can't really think of anything else that needs updating at this point...

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Lately

Well lately I have felt so busy.. with what I am not sure. I have gone back to mothers morning out after my 3 week hiatus while Jared's mom was in the hospital; so I guess that fills some time (6 hours a week!). I have been attempting to get my house decorated for Christmas - apparently in stages. The first stage - get everything out, wait 3-4 days before commencing with stage two, stage two - buy a tree and decorate said tree, stage three - place other items around house.. we have been in stage three for about 2 weeks now. I still have one lone nativity sitting on my dining room table because I don't know where to place it... otherwise mostly everything is finished. I have also been busy sewing lately. Mostly for other people, I have launched a little business - The Everyday Baby and I even have a website - see link at right, and business cards too! I feel so professional. I enjoy sewing a lot and need to get on the ball making more things for miss Landrum - I have only actually made her two outfits..

I am including a Christmas picture of Landrum in front of our tree - she is very excited about her first Christmas :)

Monday, December 01, 2008

Great News!

Mom got a great report today - her counts have been improving over the past few days, so she is getting one more blood transfusion today and then going home tomorrow! 4 weeks in the hospital is a long time and so she is very excited about getting back to Philadelphia and completing recovery there. She will most likely be back in a few weeks for another week of chemo but will hopefully be back home before Christmas. We can't thank you enough for the tremendous outpouring of love and encouragement. We really believe it was through your prayers that the LORD healed her and it was because of your support through cards, gifts and encouraging responses on CaringBridge that kept her spirits up. We owe you and Him a great debt of gratitude. I know He will bless you for being a blessing to us.