Rachel -- Big improvements over the last three days. She is getting back to her old chatty self. Thanks for the cards, visits, phone calls and prayers. She is walking around pretty good now and goes on a few short walks a day down the halls of the hospital. There is a large closet nearby that is lined with shelves and loaded with new toys, called Andrea's Closet and when the kids achieve some goals (or I suppose just need cheering up) the nurses can take the child there and they get to choose an item. Rachel chose a package of makeup and was pretty happy about it. She was allowed to start eating ice chips, pop-cicles and chicken broth a couple of days ago and now she is eating solid food. Today it was stuff like Cheerios, potatos and gravy, macaroni and cheese and ice cream. Her incision is healing well, she is off all intraveinous meds and nutrients and her lungs are clear. The main concern seems to be the blood clot in her right leg. She is currently on a thinner that needs to be given by shot twice a day. Karen is learning to give her the shots since it will take about a week to switch her to an oral medicine and it looks like Rachel may be coming home in the next 1 to 3 days. She is having an sonagram of her leg today to see how it's looking but Karen said it would probably take awhile to hear back on it. It is expected that she will need to be on the thinner for several months and will need to go in twice a week for blood tests.
Brad and Shannon started a weekend of Youth Conference today which will run through Sunday. More news on that will come once it is over. Michelle just completed a science fair project at school that I thought turned out real well.
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It's good to hear so is getting better. How is Karen holding up though all this? Your in our prayers.
I am so glad she is doing better.... We are such slacker friends, it has been a crazy week with New Beginnings and now we just arrived home from completing Ryan's Eagle Project. I am one happy Mom about that!!!!! We love you Rachel!!!!
Glad to hear some good news. Hope she continues to improve. We are thinking about you guys. Thanks for the updates.
It is good that Rachel is back to herself. I am sure she is the life of the hospital. We hope so see her at school soon. Brad is missing his momma's cookin he told me. We missed you at church yesterday. We needed that Alto for our song. It turned out well though. I guess Rachel can have you for now. J/K. Love ya. See you soon.
I am excited to see how Shelly's project turned out--what a fun topic she chose. :)
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