Thank you from Chloe.

I'm glad to be home. Thank you for all the notes. And I hope you all have a good Valentine's. Love Chloe.

They're back home.

Chloe and mom are now back home. Very tired, but glad to be home. They took a shower together and then mom headed off for a long-needed nap. Chloe is not able to take a bath since she has an open wound in her leg so it will keep draining. Thanks again to all of you. Mark

Chloe and Mom are coming home this morning!

The doctor's cleared Chloe to come home. It has been a long sleepless week for the two of them. We are looking forward to having them home today. What a special Valentine's Day for us all. Thank you for all of your support, meals, visits, and prayers this week - we couldn't have done it without your help. Happy Valentine's Day to all of you --Mark

Waiting for Tomorrow

We are anxious for tomorrow morning. Chloe is getting into mischief. I had to leave for a little bit today to run to the office and run payroll and I left her taking a nap and the nurses assured me that they would check in on her. Well when I walked back in she had tore into an art project and had paint on her clothes and sheets, but she had fun. She also had spilled a little bit of 7up so the floor was sticky. I got her all cleaned up and then the nurse came in to change out her pad that keeps her wrist straight because she had gotten paint on it too. Well when the nurse took off some of the tape and had to go retrieve some scissors to finish the change, Chloe decided to help and get the tape off and almost pulled her IV out. Thankfully she did not and the nurse saved the day and got it back in without any real trauma. She also keeps accidentally pushing the nurse button because she cant keep still.

So..........We are going to explore some more around this place and get the wiggles out.

Please pray for her bloodwork to come back normal when they check it tomorrow morning so we can go home and pray we get to go home early in the day tomorrow too.

We are thankful, we are just getting restless.

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Frustrations

Okay, you get the hear me vent a little bit.

I was so frustrated this morning. I asked the nurse when he thought the doctor would be by so I knew when to take a shower. He told me to take it right then, so I took a 3 minute shower, no kidding. The doctor came in and out and left the floor while I was in the shower. AAGH!!!!!

I went searching and asked for him to be paged, I asked what were the notes he made in the chart and guess what - no notes. Nobody knew anything and I was upset (not crazy but you know that feeling of anxiousness). The nurse here was like "they are busy and do rounds quick and then they go to clinic... and sometimes they dont call right back." I was not satisfied with that answer, so I called our pediatrician and the nurse there also was trying to make excuses saying "they might not chart until night time and yada yada "and I had to ask her to please let me finish why I called, because I also called about Bailey who is home sick with a really bad sore throat, headache and fever and since Chloe had strep I was hoping they would just call in something for Bailey. Right before our pediatrician called our nurse came in with an update, which made me feel better and he agreed that sometimes the communication could be a little better for the parents. Then our pediatrician called back and she felt the same way I did, that I should have had better communication and she did get me the answers I wanted. She also called in an antibiotic for Bailey. She also assured me that this is the best place for Chloe to be and that she would login and see Chloe's status. She was also frustrated that they did not tell her from Legacy Children's that they had transferred us. So all is much better for me now. Sigh!

The plan is to keep Chloe on IV antibiotics all day today and to check her bloodwork at 5am tomorrow morning and if the infection numbers come down alot they will probably take out the tube and let us go home.

Thanks to Chloe's cousin Travis and his 5 boys for coming to see Chloe last night. The brought so many cool things and a lot of balloons. It was fun to see them and we all went to the play room and played for a little bit. They are all so cute.

Thanks to the Balsleys for picking up Bailey's prescription while I am here and Mark had a client meeting. Thanks to Ann Warren for picking up Faith and making my family dinner tonight. Thanks to Dad who had to make the brownies for the Valentines party for Faith. I wonder if they turned out good :)

Also, I am thankful to God for getting us the answers we wanted quickly today.

Okay, This Girl needs to go home

Chloe is completely back to normal. She is jumping around, even though she has a tube in her leg and she is eating and drinking (making up for lost time). The nurse came in to see if she was tolerating food after the surgery and saw all she ate and laughed. He said she seems to be tolerating food fine after anesthesia. I am truly praying that we can go home tomorrow even if we have to come back and take the tube out. She is really doing great and I hope the doctors will see that tomorrow and let us go. They keep the tube wrapped up with alot of gauze over it for drainage and wrap it with an ace bandage. Personally I think I could handle that at home. The only obstacle would be the IV antibiotics, maybe they will change her to oral tomorrow. Of course, we want the best course of treatment, but it truly seems God has handled this beautifully, as He always does and I am keeping my hope in Him and His perfect timing.

So I have to give my kudos to all our beloved family and friends. Big sis Danielle has spent the whole afternoon here with Chloe. Uncle John came by last night and prayed over Chloe and then sent her a big ole Cookie Bouquet today, yummy!!! Chloe shared with her nurse Brad all by herself, I thought that was pretty sweet. The Balsleys went and bought a few necessary groceries for the rest of the family today (we had to add a few items since Bailey is now home sick). Thanks to the Etiers who brought dinner over to our house for the family and they had so much left they are setup for tonight too. The Glasgows transporting kids to church. Mrs. Cynthia Burr has been picking up the girls from school and getting them home for us every day.

Of course to all of you praying, checking in, messaging: there is no way that I could list everyone.

I hope I express how much we thank and love all of you. I do know though that the most important ONE knows your hearts and your are laying up your treasures in heaven as you love and serve us.

God Bless!

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Like A Breeze

The procedure/surgery went great, like a breeze. (The picture with this posting is after the procedure and she is still asleep). Chloe had absolutely no apprehensions about it at all. She probably could have done it without mom, no problem. The staff joked with her and she felt very comfortable with them. They just administered anesthesia through her IV and it burned some as it went in, which she felt and teared up. She reached for me and then dropped back completely out in about 2 seconds, if that long. She was done and I was back with her in 25 minutes. She woke up about 5 or so minutes after that and said she was fine and rolled over. About 5 minutes later she did say her leg hurt so they gave her some pain medicine and she is doing great now and has had a popsicle and I just ordered her breakfast. She did feel dizzy when she stood up - that is from the pain meds.

So back to the procedure. They made a small cut and drained the abscess and then put a little tube in so it can continue to drain. They said it might stay in for a couple of days, which means we cant go home until they take it out. The liquid they got out was kind of clear, in which the doctor said was consistent with a strep infection. Sunday I posted that we had gone to Acute Care Kids and they did a rapid strep test that was negative, well they called last night and left a message that the culture came back positive for strep. The doctors today also said that if the abscess culture comes back as strep as they suspect by the way it looked that it probably got the seed from the throat strep. Crazy how those germs can spread. Also, I am noting to myself that this is the second time for Chloe that a rapid strep test was negative and the culture was positive. That has never happened to any of the other girls or myself. So again, note to self - to remember this little difference in our youngest.

We got a call last night from Faith and Bailey after they went to church and they told Chloe that she had a lot of cards that all the kids made her at First Kids. Chloe is very excited about seeing them today. Big sis Danielle is going to get them and bring them up soon so she will be busy looking at all those cards today.

We thank all of you who are visiting, sending messages, making meals, running the other girls around, making cards and praying. We are truly loved and blessed.

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