christmas comes early

HO HO HO

she's better now

they want to move back upstairs

and get her out of IUC

but there are no beds up there

so she has to spend another night there

she told me in a text that

'she's doing great'

and that's great news

a little set-back

acacia had a little set-back last night

it seems something she drank got into her new lungs

they sent her back down to CT ICU

and apparently they've taken care of her

they had to clear out her lungs and put her

back on a ventilator for a time

but as her nurse just told me

she's back, now breathing on her own with

just some oxygen gong in her nose

and sitting up in her chair


thank god it wasn't any worse and please

-keep her in your prayers

more thanksgiving

here is what someone named Anonymous has left as a new comment:

I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart;

I will tell of all Thy wonders.

I will be glad and exult in Thee;

I will sing praise to Thy name O Most High.


I say 'amen'!

more and more good news

however

it seems they are going to wait to

take her off the bipap at night

but today, they put in the smallest trach tube

that they could find and

she doesn't have the oxygen hooked-up to her tube anymore

she's breathing on her own!!

-with her new lungs and doing great!


today, we did a lot of texting and instant messaging

and we know now how to send pictures back and forth

-her hair is so long and beautiful -a sight for sore eyes



she's feeling good, looking good, eating good (massive amounts) and

breathing on her own!

another one bites the dust

we texted each other this morning

she told me that today they will be replacing

her 'trach tube' with a smaller one

(the smallest they got!)

and that maybe, just maybe

they will get rid of the BIPAP machine

that's the machine that 'helps' her breathe at night

she (probably) no longer needs it!!


and yet another machine is gone


thank you lord and thank you all too!

she talks!!!!

there's so much good news today

i don't even know where to begin

it began when she texted me at 5:51 am

-to tell me it was a good day and that she can now shower (whew)

and then went on to tell me all the food she's been eating

cheeseburgers and pizza and for breakfast yesterday she had

a turkey dinner!!


they are gonna do surgery wednesday on her vocal cords

-to try and repair the paralysis on the left side


then my cell phone rang...

IT WAS HER!

TALKING!!

-so sweet and soft, she covers the hole in her trach tube

and it works, it was hard for her to talk

i was so overcome with emotion, that i could hardly talk

we talked for a good while, she got tired

it was like i was dreaming, i couldn't believe my ears


what a miracle this day has been

it's been seven weeks since i've heard her voice

i'm so happy and we all are so blessed!