Happy Anniversary!

Today is our 9th anniversary. With how chaotic our lives have been, it has been so nice to make time for Derrick and I. I picked him up from work and took him to lunch, along with Hallie, Tucker, and Danyelle, a family friend-- very romantic, I know! Our kids crave family time every bit as much as we do. Derrick showed up after work with roses for me, then we headed out to dinner at one of my favorite places Genghis Grill. As romantic as it is, we went shopping for a little while after. It is so rare that we get to walk into a store without at least one child. It was very nice to just spend time together. Thanks Shan for watching the kids!

Who ever would have guessed when we got married what we would go through and where our lives would take us in the next 9 years. I never imagined such heartache and suffering, but also so much joy and happiness. We have been incredibly blessed and I can't wait to see where the next 9 years take us! I love you Derrick!

Happily Home

Tucker was officially released Monday afternoon from the hospital. Poor guy was so dehydrated that they stuck him 10 times to get an iv in before I told them to stop and called Derrick to come and give him a blessing. (For those of you who are not LDS, we believe that men who have received the priesthood have the authority to act in the Lord's name). We got the iv in the next try, thank goodness. He loved that iv. Tucker LOVES cords-- anything with a cord on it is his favorite toy. He crawls behind my couches to get my lamp cords, he crawls to my desk and sticks his little arm behind there to pull at the cords. He loves it when Carson leaves out a Wii controller with the Nunchuk. That cord has baby teeth marks on it. So in Tucker's world, it could not have been cooler than to have a tube attached to his leg. It followed him everywhere he went! He just had to bend down and grab it to have a play toy and it had all sorts of cool ports on it for medicine that he got to play with as well-- pretty awesome! We pumped him full of fluids and have him on soy milk for a little while. They think he stripped away some of the lining of his intestines with as much diarrhea as he had, so milk products have a tendency to really irritate the bowels.

Other than that, he is returning to his happy normal self. He's jumping in his jumperoo right now, just happy as can be! He's crawling everywhere! He fell down 3 stairs yesterday. I have to figure out how to get a gate across the top of my stairs. I'm not sure how to do that with the layout, but I need to get creative! He's back to standing up to everything and trying to walk around and he is even getting pretty good at bending in the middle to fall, as opposed to staying as stiff as a board. Tucker is doing squats now as well. He'll be standing up to something and down he goes into a squat and than stands back up. He does 10-15 reps every time. We took a great picture the other night of the goofy face he was pulling. I'll post it when Derrick can get my computer to recognize my printer, so that I can use the card reader in it. Tucker is finally starting to be able to sit! He is such a backward child-- he can crawl and pull himself up to things and walk around furniture and even sit on his knees, but he is just finally learning that there are advantages to sitting flat on his rear! It is so fun to watch him figuring things out. He prefers his daddy right now, mom is just second best. Derrick absolutely loves it! I am so incredibly grateful the Lord blessed me with such a sweet angel, especially during this trying time in our lives!

Carson of course now has the same virus the other two have had. It is such a nasty virus!! I finally brought home some gloves from the hospital because I was washing my hands 20-30 times a day, just changing Hallie and Tucker. My hands are just raw! Carson is confined to his room to try and keep the other two from getting it back. We shall see if it works. Hallie puts hand sanitizer on about 50 times a day so she doesn't get germs because she doesn't want to go to the hospital. I am hopeful that because Carson is older and healthy to begin with that he will weather this virus better.

Hallie is finally starting to feel better. This is the best I have seen her in probably 4 or 5 months. Her appetite is returning, her bowels are functioning, she is off pain meds, her personality is starting to show through again-- not just the ornery Hallie that we have known for awhile now! It is so gratifying to see that through the misery of the last few months is emerging a happier, healthier Hallie. She's even gained almost a pound back! Yeah for Hallie!

I appreciate everyone's love and concern. We are doing the very best that we can with what we have been given. And we are holding up through it all. We are growing closer and closer to the Lord each and every day. For those that are encouraging and supportive, thank you so much. You will never know how many of our prayers you are answering and how even just telling us that we are strong, makes us feel strong enough to deal with what may be ahead for us. There are so many things going on in our lives that we are facing, many of them too personal to share, but we are taking each one head on and doing the best we can, which is all that we can do. For those that have expressed concerns, please know that I know my children, especially my daughter better than anyone. I know what they are or aren't capable of. In the entire realm of our lives, we have chosen to not stress about what we consider small things. It is the only way that we know how to survive. We know the concern comes out of love and appreciate it, but we will be fine. The Lord will not leave us alone through all of this. If I could share just a fraction of the experiences that we have had that have lifted us up through this, you would know how we find the strength to keep going. We are truly blessed!

The Munro Family Saga continues

I've decided that I need to rename our blog-- how does the Munro Family Saga sound? Tucker has been sick with the same rotovirus Hallie has had since Friday. I took him into the doctor today because he seemed to be getting worse and after a long process to get labs drawn and results, we are admitting him. He is even more dehydrated than Hallie was! All of his other levels are better than Hallie's since he has been very healthy, so they are hoping to push a ton of fluids tonight and let us go home tomorrow. I'm not holding my breath, but we can hope!

Once again, we are home!

I'm starting to feel like a broken record! But Hallie and I made it back home last night. She is still pretty sick, as is Tucker, but to have us all under the same roof is so incredibly nice! The nurse came in with her lab results yesterday afternoon and told us to pack our bags. I celebrated and Hallie broke out in sobs. She wanted to go home "tomorrow". She has told me every day we were there that she wanted to go home tomorrow. She didn't want us to unhook her feeding tube. She didn't want her iv out. She didn't like me packing our bags. But let me tell you, when she looked out the window and saw her daddy and Carson and Tucker, she was thrilled! She even did a happy dance! She saw Carson carrying her Nike clothes she got from Granny Annie and Grammy and about jumped out of my arms-- "My Nike clothes! They brought my Nike clothes because I am a Nike girl!" Then she wanted to water squirt them from the window. We are on the 4th floor and she wants a water gun to squirt her daddy and Carson with.

We are thrilled to be home. We won't be going many places for the next few weeks while she gets her strength back so that she can fight off illnesses better,but just being able to be home is an incredible blessing and we are just going to enjoy it!

Third times the charm?

I sure hope so! Hallie was admitted to the hospital here in Reno today. She started throwing up about 3 o'clock yesterday. She even threw up her feeding tube! I pretty much knew by last night she needed to be admitted, but we were trying to avoid the emergency room and I didn't think my body could take another night of no sleep, waiting to be admitted, and getting settled. I took her to her pediatrician this morning and she was running a fever. We weren't there very long before they sent us back to the hospital. At least they did her iv her on the pediatric floor. Last time in the ER, we went through 3 ivs in about 8 hours! So far, so good on this one.

Hallie was dehydrated, so they have her on iv fluids. She can't eat or drink-- again. They did an x-ray which shows an ileus. Basically her intestines have stopped partially. Her lab work looks fine, so they don't think she is fighting a virus or anything. The only thing that I can think of is flying is causing this. We have only been home 24 hours after flying before she starts having problems again. I met with the pediatric surgeon here in Reno today and am hoping to be able to talk to our surgeon in Salt Lake tomorrow as well. We need to figure out what is going on because this is getting really old. Poor Tucker won't let me out of his sight, afraid that I am going to leave him again. Carson thinks it's great-- he gets to go to all sorts of friends and play all day-- what could be better?

Derrick and I are just very frustrated. It is so hard to see her suffer, to see her in pain and have to try and explain why she can't eat or drink. She's a very thirsty girl and wants to grow big, so why can't she drink? How do you even begin to explain that to her? Derrick sat with her for a few hours this afternoon while I went home and packed some stuff for tonight, then spent time with the boys. When I got back and Derrick left, she told me that the doctor had told her she could have a cherry popsicle and eat whatever she wanted. She is just determined that she is going to eat! We want so much to be able to put our family back together. We have been all together for less than 36 hours in almost 7 weeks. I just want to be able to have all of my family under the same roof for more than one night!

Hallie's nurse just came in and said that she tested positive for the rotavirus. It's an intestinal infection that typically effects kids under 2, or at least causes them to be hospitalized. In older kids, it is just typically diarrhea, but because Hallie is so weak to begin with and her intestines are so messed up, it is hitting her hard. Vomitting should stop within 2-3 days and the fever and diarrhea within 1 week. I guess we caught it really early, before it is even showing up in her blood work, which is good. At least we have a reason as to why her intestines aren't functioning well. The funny thing is that she didn't start with diarrhea until about 3 hours ago. Oh well, at least it is not an obstruction or something else equally fun.

It is very important for the next few weeks that Hallie not be exposed to anything else. I guess we won't be taking her anywhere and ask that anyone that comes to visit makes sure they and their kids are completely healthy. What may seem like just a small inconvenience to someone else could land Hallie right back into the hospital. She just really needs a chance to get her strength back.

I will talk to the doctors tomorrow but I am hoping to get to take her home soon. All they are doing is iv fluids and I can do the rest at home. I could have my nursing degree with all of the fun stuff that I know how to do! Mostly, I just want her home, where there aren't all sorts of sick people that can be passing on germs to her and where you don't have a nurse come in hourly just to check and see how you are doing!

Thank you all for your love and support. I am incredibly grateful to everyone that is pitching in and helping us out, without making us feel like a burden. I know the Lord has placed you in our lives to help us through this trying time. We are truly blessed!

We're home! Pics of her last hospital visit.

Hallie's stash of things-- there wasn't even room for her in the wagon! And I had taken a load to Grammy's the day before! She collected quite a few things while we were there!

Hallie in the car, leaving the hospital. She is so funny. After she hasn't ridden in a car for awhile, it really freaks her out to be in one again. She wasn't sure this was fun at all, but at least we were out of the hospital!

Granny Annie and Hallie. Pop Pop passed away 2 days after Hallie's surgery so Gram was otherwise occupied, but she came to visit her a few times in the hospital and then again right before we left. We sure love you Gram!

On our first airplane trip back to Reno. It was a hard trip for her to make because she was still hurting quite a bit!

Hallie in her wheel chair at the airport. Boy did we get a lot of funny looks having her in there! Don't let it bother you that the most she had walked up to that point was 50-60 yards!

Tucker and Daddy sitting by Hallie's bed. They told me to call Derrick- we were being taken by plane to Salt Lake and to give him 20 minutes to pack a bag for us and be on his way-- 6 hours later we were still waiting for weather to clear so that we could fly out!

She wasn't too sure about being loaded onto the gurney. And she wasn't too sure that she wanted to head back to Salt Lake. Although once she got there, she acted like the children's hospital was her long lost best friend and was glad to be back there.

Hallie being loaded onto the ambulance at St. Mary's here in Reno. She is such a back seat driver. She kept telling the driver that he was going to hit into the wall or was going too fast!

Hallie and her own personal flight team, waiting to board the airplane.

Hallie's own personal Emergency Air Flight plane. My family is taking bets on how much the transfer is going to cost us--anyone else care to guess? Keep in mind that we have to pay for the airplane itself, the Emergency Air flight crew consisting of a nurse and paramedic that accompanied us from hospital to hospital, plus the two ambulances that took us to and from the hospitals. Derrick offered to take vacation and go with her. I might have let him if it wasn't for the fact that I am completely responsible for her care for the most part and if people start asking Derrick too many questions about her history, he refers them to me! I think he was just really jealous that we got to go up in the plane and he didn't!

Hallie's self portrait. She really likes to take pictures and kept grabbing my camera to take random pics. This one turned out fairly well!

Hallie and I on the plane. There was a gurney behind us, but they thought she might be more comfortable and less apprehensive if she was sitting next to me. She ended up on my lap and was pretty happy about it. Sorry Derrick-- I was doing good to take care of her and take the few pictures I did of her that I didn't think to take pictures of what the whole inside of the plane looked like!

By this point, Hallie was so tired of sitting in her bed. She was feeling well enough to not want to be confined anymore, but not well enough to really be up and about. She wasn't eating and was pretty weak, so this was her favorite place to be that was out of bed, but didn't really require much energy.

Cass and Hallie making crafts. They have 2 crafts a day for kids to do-- this was decorating Easter eggs.

The hospital has a huge playroom donated by Steve Young called the Forever Young Zone. In all of Hallie's 13 hospitalizations, this is the first time that she herself has gotten to use the playroom. She was in love! She would have spent all day there if they would have let her and used all her persuasion powers to convince anyone, even her nurses to take her here.

"Cleaning" the playroom-- why is it that you can't get your kids to clean at home but they will pretend clean all day!

Poppy and Grammy taking Hallie for a walk. They came up and spent a few hours with us Sunday. Hallie really enjoyed the distraction, especially since she couldn't eat or drink anything at that point.

Hallie getting her vitals taken. She had to have them taken every 4 hours and got to a point where she stuck out the arm she wanted to get the "hug" (blood pressure) from and what finger to put the light on (oxygen levels in the blood). Then as soon as it was done, she would take them all off herself. The nurses joked that she was in training to take their job.

Hallie had to have an enteroclysis done-- they stuck a tube down her nose into her intestines and injected contrast to follow it through. She had this done a few weeks before and was terrified the minute she walked into the room. They ended up giving her Versed which really relaxes her. She was so funny during it! She would look up at me and smile this goofy grin, then tell me she really liked the tube--it tickled her throat. Afterwards EVERYONE gave her a present-- her nurse gave her the blanket, her radiology tech gave her the stuffed moose, the sedation nurse gave her the doll, among several other small prizes. The doll was porcelain and we decided it would be better to give it to an little bit older girl who wouldn't break it. Hallie was so cute! She walked into this 7 year old's room and gave her the doll and was so proud of herself. I was pretty proud of her too!

One of Hallie's prizes after an x-ray. They give her tokens after procedures and she can put it into a vending machine and get a prize. We have had so many procedures the last month that she has gotten pretty much one of everything, and multiples of many of them. This was a new prize and she was so thrilled with it!

Grandma Munro and Dustin Robert flew out to help Derrick with the boys. They planned a layover in Salt Lake and got to spend about an hour visiting with Hallie, before they had to leave again. She sure loved having them play with her!

This cow was in a waiting room down the hall from her first room. After surgery, we made it her goal to walk to the cow and back. She was to weak and sore to ride on it, but she loved walking to it. One morning on this last hospitalization, I was on the phone with the insurance company and her tech took her for a walk. They came back with a male nurse toting the cow and put it in her room. What a child! Only Hallie could convince them to move a toy out of a waiting room meant for everyone into her own personal room!

Wagons are hard to come by at the children's hospital. They use them to transport small patients a lot, so if you come up with one, it is usually repossessed as soon as you are done with it. Hallie REALLY liked this wagon. It had seats, a door, and cup holders-- what could be better. I took her for a walk in it and when we got back, we left it outside of her door. She was so worried that someone would take it that she went out to the hall and sat in it--just so people would know it was in use. Her nurse finally moved it into her room so she wouldn't be as concerned about it and Hallie still just sat in it, watching tv or whatever. She just didn't want anyone to take it!

Leaving the hospital-- again! Somehow her wagon isn't nearly as full as the last go round! There is actually room for her in it this time!

Hallie anxiously awaiting our plane at the airport-- she was so excited she was literally shaking. She kept squealing with excitement on the airport. It is really fun to see what small little things she has missed and what she gets excited for-- she really missed her brothers and could hardly wait to see them!

We are out of there!

We are officially released from Primary Children's Medical Center! Yeah!!!! They tried to kick us out yesterday, said our insurance wouldn't cover it because there was no medical necessity. I think that yesterday was one of our most frustrating days in the hospital!

According to the dietician, Hallie was taking in 90% of her expected calories. You should see her eating-- a fry here, a bite of PB&J there, if I'm lucky, 2-3 sippy cups of something each day. For those of you that have seen Hallie eat, there is no way that is 90% of what she normally takes in. They were trying to calculate her calories on 92 more calories than a normal child her age-- right! She is missing half of her intestines! She eats more than Carson hands down and rivals what I eat on some days. My friends Shannon watched Hallie several times while I was on bed rest with Tucker and she was absolutely amazed at how much food she eats! I packed a bag for her to spend the day at the pool with Shannon once and she kind of laughed at me with how much food I packed for her. It was all gone when they got home. So for some dietician to tell me that my child only needs 92 more calories than a normal child is absurd. Hallie has lost 3 lbs since January and those 3 lbs probably took me close to a year to get on her. I would guess that she is taking in closer to 30-40% of her normal. Oh, and the dietician also says that for her heighth, her weight is in the 90th percentile. Are you joking?!!!! Her legs and arms are twigs. There is absolutely no meat on them any more.

So after the lovely dietician informs me of this, they basically tell me that they are sending her home. I told them I wouldn't accept responsibility for her. She wasn't even drinking enough to go without being hooked up to an iv at night. Plus she's been throwing up at night. They didn't take that into consideration either. First, I had a long discussion with her nurse, then with the resident surgeon, then with surgical nurse practioner. Of course, this takes ALL day to get through all of this. All the while, her actual surgeon is in a liver transplant that took about 9 hours. I talked to the discharge nurse-- if I insisted on keeping her in the hospital, I was going to have to pay out of pocket for it. They were sorry, but that is just the way the insurance is. I talked to our pediatrician's office her in Salt Lake. They said that if I felt she would benefit from a feeding tube, then they would support me in it. I talked to several nurses who have taken care of Hallie after her other intestinal surgeries. They all agreed with me that this is very abnormal for Hallie and that she would probably benefit from a feeding tube for a few weeks at least. I talked to her GI dietician. She felt that Hallie wasn't tolerating her food very well based on how much pain eating was causing her and the fact that her bowel movements were straight water. She went as far as to suggest we take her off all food for a few days, tube feed her with formula, and then slowly reintroduce food, documenting everything so that I knew what she would tolerate and what she wouldn't. I felt that was a little extreme, but hey, whatever. At least she agreed that Hallie needed more help. I just coudn't get the surgeons on duty to agree. It was so frustrating! They wanted me to wait for a few weeks and see how she did and then possibly place a feeding tube. I knew that if we placed one now, Hallie would view it as part of getting better and handle it a lot better than being home for a few weeks, start feeling normal, and then put a tube down. Not to mention that I knew she couldn't afford to lose any more weight and I was worried about her getting dehydrated-- a concern that we have on a normal basis since she is missing so much of her large intestine, let alone when she isn't drinking enough!

Then Dr. Scaife came to the rescue! I love that doctor! I know that Hallie wouldn't be here know if Dr. Scaife didn't trust me the way he does and actively include me in any decisions as a member of the team. Even more so, he values my input above most of his team because I am the one taking care of her day to day. Derrick asked me how I convinced him she needed a feeding tube. I told him I didn't have to do any convincing. Within 2 minutes, Dr. Scaife asked me what I thought, I told him, he was writing orders for a feeding tube to be placed and putting notes in her record so that the insurance would pay for her to stay there another night. It was like this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders! There is a reason that I trust Dr. Scaife so much and it is because he truly listens to me. I felt the same way when we went in for our consultation that we scheduled surgery at. I had talked to other doctors until I was blue in the face. None of them truly listened to what I had to say and I was extremely frustrated. I walked into his office, he listened to me for a few minutes, told me he had to take care of 2 other patients quickly because she would take a while to sort out. He came back a little later and told me the exact thing I had been trying to get other doctors to see-- she needed surgery. Dr. Scaife is truly a blessing in our life!

I was taught how to place her tube and actually placed it myself. We hooked her up last night and this morning they came in and said she was tolerating it really well and she could go home. We are putting her on Zantac to try and help keep things moving through so that she isn't throwing up every day. I really think that should help a lot. Hallie called my mom this morning to tell her to come pick us up. She asked what time and Hallie told her 9:30. I don't know where she came up with this time, but she was ready to go. We had our bags packed, with her sitting in her wagon, seat belt on, all ready to go for most of the morning. It was hard to coax her out!

Of course we couldn't leave without a few glitches and they were having a hard time finding a place that would rent us a pump for the weekend and then turn around and find return it when we head back to Reno. Derrick and I talked about it and as much as I want to be with my other kids for Easter, we feel it will be better to wait until after the holiday weekend is over. If she has any more problems, we don't want a repeat of last weekend! They also told us they didn't think the insurance would pay for the pump because Hallie is eating some by mouth. It is all so frustrating! Luckily, the discharge planner found a company that services both Utah and Nevada. They will be delivering a pump tonight and supplies for the weekend here and then the rest of the supplies to our house in Reno. When we are done with the pump, we can just return it in Reno. And because we have a written prescription for the pump, the insurance should cover it.

Hallie is happy to be out of the hospital. I would have thought that after spending 24 hours a day for 7 days with me in the hospital, she would be very happy to play with her Grammy and aunt, but so far she is fairly attached to me. She is feeling better than she has in a long time. She is going longer and longer in between pain meds and is using fewer hot packs to help with the pain. She is laughing and giggling a lot more. She is climbing up on things. She even pulled off all of her steri strips off of her incision. They were bugging her. It is so nice to see her emerging again. Being on a surgical ward, you see all sorts of patients come and go. You realize how sick Hallie has been when you see how long other patients stay. One girl across from us stayed for 2 days after they straightened out her ureters from her kidneys to her bladder. Another girl had rods and pins placed in her leg and was gone the next day. One boy had a severe case of appendicitis and was there for 5 days. Hallie spent 9 days the first go round and 7 this time. She has been one sick little girl and yet her surgeon says that she is rebounding more like he would expect a child who had just had their first bowel resection, not her 4th. She is pretty incredible and we are so incredibly grateful to have her in our lives and to know that the Lord has entrusted her to us to help her through this!

The results are in

I spoke to Hallie's surgeon today and got the results of all of her tests yesterday-- can I tell you how much I like her surgeon? He is incredible and understands her and me better than almost any other doctor! Anyways, she does not have an obstruction. There is a section of her colon that is inefficient, which is not uncommon for kids with an atresia (her initial diagnosis). They think her intestines stopped working due to all of the narcotics she was taking to control her pain. They are working fine now. However, Hallie is not eating or drinking enough because it hurts her. So we are doing a calorie count today and if she doesn't take in enough, we are going to place a feedig tube to take her home with. Hopefully that would be temporary-- about a month-- until her body is recovered from surgery. We shall see what the next few days bring!

Tests, tests and more tests

Since we have gotten back to Salt Lake, we have done a lot of waiting!!! I hate weekends at hospitals! You get the on call docs as opposed to your regular docs and no one wants to do ANYTHING!!!!! It is really frustrating! Combine that with Reno on call docs trying to work with Salt Lake on call docs and it has made for a very frustrating weekend.

Today we started to see some action. They took Hallie down for an enteroclysis-- they stick a tube down her nose into her intestines and inject dye and follow it through to determine if there are any blockages. We did this test a few weeks ago and they didn't sedate her. They strapped her to a board and it was very traumatizing. We walked into the same room this morning and she freaked out. At first, they were just going to do it with me and a few techs holding her down so that we didn't have to strap her down. Then the radiologist decided to be nice and sedate her. Yeah!!!! We LOVE Versed! It makes Hallie very happy. She kept smiling at me through the procedure. She even told me that she loved the tube because it tickled her nose. Some of the things she was saying was so funny! But what is normally a half hour procedure turned into 2 hours as we waited for them to make arrangements to sedate her and recover her after. She walked away with a porcelain doll, a stuffed moose, a ring, 2 bracelets, and a new blanket. Talk about a haul!

We had to go back multiple times after that for x-rays to see where the contrast had progressed to. I feel like we spent the day in radiology! Her surgeon was supposed to come see us when we were done, but he got called into emergency surgery, so we are hoping to see him in the morning.

Hallie is eating again, although it hurts a lot. Her bowel is functioning to some degree, but we are just anxious to get the test results back. She is in a lot of pain again, which is hard to see. She has lost 3 lbs, which she didn't have 3 lbs to lose. Today she hardly wants to eat or drink anything. It is a very nasty cycle. You eat, but it hurts, so you don't want to eat, then you lose weight and get very hungry until you decide to eat, but it hurts and so on and so on. We just aren't sure how much to push her until we find out if she is partially obstructed or if it is just her intestines having a hard time adjusting. We also won't have an idea of how long we will be here, until we know exactly what is wrong.

Thank you all for the help you are extending to Derrick as he is taking care of the boys by himself! Kind of scary to leave it in his hands, but we have had so many offers of people to help out, that we don't know what to do with them all. My mother-in-law is flying out from Kentucky to help Derrick out, especially with Easter since I don't have a thing ready for it yet! Hallie has a dress in Reno and I did buy Tucker a new dress outfit and Carson a tie, but other than that, not one thing. Good thing Grandma is coming! I would hate to see what Derrick through together in between taking care of the boys and working.

We are hoping for a good night tonight, that Hallie gets the rest that she needs. My mom called to talk to Hallie today and she told her that she couldn't talk because she was ornery. Isn't that the truth! It's embarassing to have people come into her room because she is just mean! I know she doesn't feel well, but it is so uncomfortable to have her stick her tongue out at complete strangers! Maybe a good night sleep will help! I sure hope so!

We're Back!

Just a quick update-- I will give more details when I get time. Hallie was released on Tuesday, we flew back to Reno Thursday and ended up being admitted last night in Reno. They decided she needed to come back to Salt Lake, so she and I were airlifted this evening and are back at Primary Children's. I will post more later!