Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Blessed Beyond Measure

Good evening all! As I am sitting here typing this, I have a daughter in the other room who is sitting in her toddler rocking/recline seat shaking her plastic keys just 6 days after open heart surgery! How awesome is that!

Surgery went very well and recovery is going better than expected. Sophie still has some issues with her pain management, but all in all, she is doing remarkably well. On Friday morning all of the doctors were doing their rounds and one doctor in particular said that she is doing amazing, better than anticipated. I told him I wasn't surprised. After all, Sophie is a pretty big deal! ;)


Sophie 1 hour post op. The nurses tied a ribbon in her hair before we came back to see her!


Sophie's incision is what the surgical team refers to as a cosmetic incision. Dr. Hirsch-Romano made it low enough and small enough so Sophie can wear scoop neck shirts. I am pleased with how thoughtful she was in making her decisions. Not just for the moment, but for the long term.

As for Dan, Shane, and I, we are feeling relief. We are able to breathe again, even if it is just in this moment. We know there are more things to come with her having MWS, but right now, we are thankful for where Sophie is at. Shane was able to make a Hippo that had every single wire, tube, iv in it that Sophie did and it helped him understand what was going on with his sister. We couldn't be happier with U of M Mott's Children's Hospital.

I come before all of you humbled. Through the past couple of weeks Dan and I have had to learn to just say Thank You. Not just thank you for opening my door, or thanks for taking out the trash, but the kind of Thank You that has you all choked up inside, holding back tears, because Thank You doesn't seem like enough. I can't even begin to describe to each and every one of you the outpouring of love and support you all, everyone, has shown my family. We are overwhelmed with it all, in a good way!

Remember how I asked all of you to pray that God would meet our financial needs? Well, let me just tell you how exactly He did that!

 Every single amount of money that came in told us to give thanks to God because He was the one providing and they were so right, He did! We don't have a single financial worry right now with being off with Sophie and I can't tell you how good that feels! Now do you understand how we have had to learn just to say Thank You? Dan and I aren't the type of people who are comfortable with asking for help, so we don't do it. We try to make every happen on our own. We are the type of people that if someone needs help, we will do what we can to make it happen for them. So, to all of you, Thank You!

Sophie is currently in living room, like I said earlier, still clapping her hands and shaking her keys! I just snapped this picture of her just relaxing!