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New Name, New Look
Before moving to Sacramento, I felt my blog needed an lift. So after talking to Myke and going over our game plan, we have come up with a new name, new look, and new content. We are going to be rediscovering Sacramento as a family, so we want to share it with you all. Myke moved away when he was 9 and I moved away when I was 19, so we have some rediscovering…
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Reflections and Easter
I’ve read through these last few posts a dozen times and I add and delete things every time. I don’t know if I will ever be able to perfectly pen how the 39 day process of getting Olivia home. I look back every now and then and my arms long to hold her, even if she is sitting 2 feet from me. I want to thank you all for reading her story. It was a…
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Olivia’s Story: The Finale
After we were able to start holding Olivia, she seemed to be on the mend. She was officially off the ventilator the day after we held her and then she was extubated. After a couple more weeks in the NICCU, we were moved up to the 5th floor of the hospital. What this meant was we were healthy enough to be out of the intensive care, but not quite healthy enough to go home. The…
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Olivia’s Story: 12 Days Later
About a week and a half later, Olivia started to make some strides. Her chest tube was taken out and then her oxygen levels slowly started to be lowered. Now when we arrived at the hospital, we had certain numbers to watch on monitors and we had certain goals. We knew that she had to be off the ossilating ventilator in order for us to hold her. Myke and I prayed for 12 days for…
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Olivia’s Story: September 30, 2017
On September 30th, We were woken up by the doctors letting us know that, Olivia was officially being transferred to Children’s Hospital LA (CHLA). At this point in time, I was supposed to be recovering in the hospital a few more days, so Myke jumped out of bed, showered, and wheeled me down to say goodbye to her. I don’t remember every detail because my eyes were filled with tears and everyone kept telling me…
