Sunday's update

No more breathing tube !!!!!! they took it out today about 3:45 and she is doing pretty good. She was very scared for them to take it out in act didn't want them to because of what happened last time. But she is doing good. She also got rid of an iv line and also the catheter. ( I really don't know how to spell all this stuff. anyway. She used to have about 8 or 9 medication pumps pumping stuff into her and now she only has 4 so that is better too! She will probably be in icu for another couple of days and then out to the main floor for several more days. She still can't eat or drink anything for a couple more days. Thanks for all the prayers they are definitely working ! She has been more aware that last day or so and is getting more weepy about being there and such. it makes me sad to have to tell her she cant' go home or eat but we'll make it thru. My kids are all being such troopers thru this all. I know I wanted them to learn to love each other but this is definitely NOT the way I would have chosen for it to happen! Love you all!! I'll post more pictures later. Got to get back to the hospital.

Next update...

hey its Shannon here. my mom asked me to post an update so here it is. Rachel has a blood clot in her leg, so the doctors are giving her blood thinner.. she still has the breathing tube however she has not had a fever for almost 24 hours! yay! At the very minimum, she will be out of the hospital next weekend!!!She is quite the trooper!!! Brad and I had the wonderful opportunity to go visit our lil sis yesterday! I missed her!!! what a amazing time I had! I never knew how much I loved her til all this happened and I know I will not be mean to her because I really do love her. I had the hardest time yesterday walking in the room and seeing her laying there strapped down to the table so helpless. just walking in I got teary eyed. She is sedated I think thats what its called, anyways I anxiously awaited for her to wake up and when she did I held her hand and talked to her. It was so sad that she couldn't talk back. It was so sad when the nurses were working on her. I started crying but I didn't want Rach to see me sad so i tried to hold myself together. I did her hair for her!!We talked to her and she wanted to tell us something so we got her typing board thingy and it took a while but she finally got the message " Can i call emma?" That made me teary eyed. Emma is in the family that I babysit for. She had appendicidis a while back. She also asked to call Cheyenne one of her best friends. We were there for a while on Friday night, but I'll tell you, it was one of the best fridays ever because I got to spend it with my sister who I missed so much! When we told her we had to go she started crying which made me cry! my mom said she has never cried before! it was so sad. I have been being "the mommy" around here! its been quite the challenge trying to fill in my mom's shoes with cleaning and trying to keep peace around here! I never knew how much my mom does for me! I LOVE YOU MOM!! and DAD!! you guys do so much for us and I am really grateful for it! People in our ward have been so kind and thoughtful and It means alot to me to know so many people care THANKS!!!!! We have also had alot of family call, thanks for being concerned. WE love you guys and we couldn't do it without you!!!
WE LOVE YOU RACHEL!!! GET BETTER SOON! WE MISS YOU!!!!
AWE its so sad looking at how miserable she is! :/ well thats about it...there will be another update later.

Rachel update...

Well, pretty much more of the same today. They had to give her more blood today, she is on 3 heavy duty anti biotics and fluids and such. There are so many tubes coming out of her it is unbelievable. They weren't even going to try and take out the breathing tube today because it stressed her so much yesterday. Her top part of her right lung colapsed yesterday so they are basically letting her heal today. They are keeping her pretty much sedated and on pain medication so she only opens her eyes when they are doing something to her. She wants to have a drink and eat but that is not in the picture for a couple more days. The last time she ate was monday afternoon. They give her breathing treatments every 4 hours and pound on her chest then suction out the mucus stuff. She is fighting a fever but they aren't sure if there is infection or post op fever. hmmm... can't think of anything else. Spencer and President Derrick (our old bishop) gave her another blessing today. We hope she will start improving. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. I'm off to the hospital so spencer can come home and settle everyone for bed and get some more work done. We love you all. She is at Banner Desert (off dobson and freeway) the direct number is 480-512-6111

Rachel is in the hospital.....

ok, for those who don't know the whole story,here it goes. Monday about 12:00 rachel started complaining that her stomach hurt, I dismissed it as her hypocondriac condition. later that evening still complaining. about 8:00 started throwing up. ended about 1:30 a.m. tuesday morning she could barley walk so we took her into the dr. he said, yup appendicitus (i really don't know how to spell it and I'm in a hurry so sorry) anyway, he sent us to the er so we stopped back by and had dad give her a blessing and we were on our way. They called ahead to er. we still waited in the waiting room about anhour or so. another doctor examined her and he said yup! i agree so we went to a room in er and she had to drink some stuff for a cat scan (which she never had due to the sure concensus of the doctors) anyway she went into surgery at about 5:50:p.m and it was suposto be a quick in and out laproscopic surgery only 45 minutes to an hour. about an hour and a half later we were concerned and the or nurse called and said things were slow but the doc would be out to let us know shortly. well, the dr came out about an hour after that telling us they had had a bit of a problem as one of the laproscopic things (which are spring loaded) slipped and cut a vein (he said nicked) anyway, she started bleading and losing lots of blood so theyhad to open her up and fix things and put in a breathing tube and such. It was pretty critical. so a surgery that was suposto last 45 minutes lasted 3 hours. She is in icu and will be there a few days and then a regular room a few more. Today they took the breathing tube out at 1:00 but spencer just called me (5:30) and said they had to put it back in because she is struggling to breath so...... we will keep you posted. we would appreciate all the prayers you could give her. thanks!! Back to the hospital..ta ta

Sister,....sisters..sisters!!

I have a couple of girls living here with me who are having a horrible time getting along. After repeated threats and such, I finally moved them into a room with each other. It is a bit squishy with Jenna, Rachel and Michelle in the same room but that is the way it will be till Rachel and Michelle can learn to love and be nice to each other. They have to do it for 6 weeks straight before Michelle can return to her room with Shannon. Meanwhile, Shannon is loving having a lot of room to herself. I told her to not get too comfortable with it cause likely they will learn to get along and she will need to share again. sheeze! don't know what else to do.. any suggestions?

Sick of being sick

Brad has been sick for about 2 weeks now. We are trying to get to the bottom of what is going on and are waiting on test results. He was able to muster up enough strength to help the young men play their basket ball game on saturday. He did pretty good, I was sorry we had to miss it as we were planting seeds at the bishop's nursery.

Teenagers strike again!

I guess it should make me feel happy that my kids have so many friends who love them so much it seem quite a regular occurrence to walk out and find our house tp'd or something on or in Brad's car. My neighbor said, "that's what you get when you have a bunch of cute girls" wait..., my girls aren't old enough to like boys yet.... what is he talking about. I am glad that they all have such a great group of friends to hang out with. It makes being good easier. The younger girls think it is so fun and exciting when we wake up to something like this. They probably won't think it so fun when they have to clean stuff up after having our house attacked. About 2 weeks ago it looked like it had snowed at our house with bags of shredded paper and toilet paper all around. Brad cleaned it up at midnight because it was threatening to rain and he didn't want to have to clean it up after it was all soggy and wet. thus, I didn't get a picture of it.