We’re back home and on the mend. It was a bit of a tough transistion, getting nursing care arranged for both at home and at school and so Lily was away from school longer than we had hoped, but she went back late last week and has been as happy as they come ever since. …
Time is a funny thing. For the past few weeks Jess and I have been constantly reminding ourselves that “time heals” – we knew that we just needed to give Lily and her body some time to get over this bout of…well, whatever it was. And of course we were right, but those weeks felt …
I’m walking around in a fog – or worse, on the constant edge of tears. Every time I allow myself time to just stop I end up back there and I can’t tear myself away. I know that I’ve joked in the past about my PTSD state post Lily’s cardiac arrest. I know that I’ve …
Cardiology came and went. They sedated, they scanned, they saw, they pronounced her heart strong and her lung pressures stable. They said to come back in a year. It was music to our ears. There was a moment, one breath-holding, heart stopping moment. While Lily was conked out from the sedation (which was rare in …
A mom post tonight… I love my job. I really and truly do. Like becoming a mother, it was the one thing I always knew that I wanted to do. I would spend my childhood summers planted at the pool and when asked I would tell everyone that I wanted to be a lifeguard. To …
One last mom post tonight before Lily returns and tells you all about her “re-birthday” party, her trip to neurology this week and our big plans for the rest of the summer. But until then…. Most of you know that Jess and I are very different – sometimes as different as two people can be. …