Almost Christmas

I'm just waiting up for Avarie to get home. She's babysitting tonight - although it's more like she's hanging with one of her friends and getting paid for it. If you asked her to watch an actual baby she would probably say "no".

Bradlee has been home for a week and a half now and is finally getting her bounce back. Now she just has to get motivated to do three weeks of homework during vacation. Not fun. She also told me that she is going to be in the high school's production of Grease. She will be keeping busy.

We are all excited for Christmas. Kevin has 3 weeks off. The vacation time keeps piling up because he's been so busy at work so its going to be nice to have him home for a while. He used up a couple weeks of sick days while Bradlee was in the hospital but now its his turn to relax. We didn't make any vacation plans because we didn't know how Bradlee would be feeling so we'll be home this year.

Carsten had a cranky day. Maybe because we kept him up late last night at the ward christmas party. Anyway, we put him down early tonight and he went right to sleep. We see how early he gets up in the morning.

For all you readers in Wisconsin - our weather has turned rotten - 75 degrees with WIND. What happened to our perfect weather - wait - i'm sure it will be back next week.

Two Weeks

As of this morning Bradlee has been in the hospital two weeks. Everyone is asking why she has been in so long and I guess its because we have been going very conservatively.

Bradlee was admitted to the hospital with an already ruptured appendix and the CT scan showed a few pockets of infection. It wasn't spread out everywhere, it had contained itself in a few places. A drain was placed into the biggest pocket in the hopes that the smaller pockets were all connected to it or that the antibiotics would reduce the small infections and surgery would be avoided.

Unfortunatly that didn't happen. Although the large pocket drained well and the smaller ones were smaller they weren't going away so the doctor decided to operate and clean up the rest of the infection. That happened Friday afternoon and now Bradlee is just in recovery mode. She had been feeling pretty good before the surgery and had been almost pain free for several days so its is annoying to be back almost to square one as far as pain is concerned. But it is definately no where near as bad as when she was admitted. We played cards for a while to day and she is able to get out of bed a bit.

We are hoping that a few more days will see her recovered enough to come home. We appreciate everyone's concern and help. Luckily Kevin has been able to stay home from work so he has the child care duties, while I spend most of my day at the hospital with Bradlee.
--Debbie