We Are Home

Praise the Lord--we are HOME!

Our morning started at 5 am with a chest xray...as it has for the past 18 days! Her xray looked great. They usually take blood from her central line after that for lab work, but this am, they had trouble getting blood from the line. 3-4 nurses tried before they could get blood. The last nurse had to pull back on the line a bit (which is stitched to her skin) and that caused some screaming. By then we were all really awake! Her labs looked good also, so we knew it was GO TIME!

Bill worked in the Emergency Department last night, so he came up after his shift. Mahaela was cut free from everything, so she was practically roaming the halls. The doctors came in to see her around 8 am and all her paperwork was ready to go. We left the hospital about 9 am!

Such a great feeling to just be in our home, together...making messes!

(Grandmas took care of my kids and house for 2 1/2 weeks and there are no messes. We are home 3 hours and it is like a tornado blew through...I just don't have what it takes to keep it all together.)

To look at Mahaela, you wouldn't know anything has happened to her. She has energy--at least the energy to fight with her siblings. We are so glad that she has healed so well. As Bill said, it felt really good leaving the hospital. It wasn't the 7 days that we expected, but it could have been 7 weeks, or worse.

Thanks to so many for praying. We couldn't have made it without those prayers. We were completely held up.

Thank you, Jesus!