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PICU

Vulnerable.

That is the best way I can describe Kendall right now. Very very very vulnerable. Sometime yesterday morning (while i was home with the big girls and Ben was up here with Kendall), she started showing us signs that she was not tolerating the infection well. But they were soft signs, things that could be …

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July 25

Last year, on this very day, Kendall came to the hospital to have her bladder surgery. She apparently has a thing for the PICU in July, who knew?We are hangin out here, waiting. Waiting for the bugs to grow, waiting for her smile to show. Waiting for  the lab to call waiting for the shoe …

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Thank you.

How do you say thank you to someone who has saved your child’s life? How do you thank someone for using every ounce of their stored knowledge, of experiences past both good and bad that play into current circumstances? How do you say “thank you for not giving up, even when it seemed like we …

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Head to Toe, Part 2.

So when I left off part 1, I had just crashed on the couch and Kendall was stable-ish. She continued to need high doses of the pressers (medications that work to keep your heart pumping and to keep your veins constricted enough to hopefully keep the blood/fluid in the veins and out of your tissues), …

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