Coming Home

Mom is coming home to finish recuperating. She only took 1 pain pill today and is doing very well. It will be great to have her close to home. My Grandma is here to help my Mom and my Dad. We are thankful to have her come and help. Mom's back is doing good. She is still having troubles with her hemoglobin, bowels and endocrine system. Please pray for complete healing for her body...back and all.

The Baker house is on to healing as well. No fevers tonight! The kids have been running high fevers which we discovered was a bad virus they were sharing. It went from Julia-Memphis-Gage and now we pray that it doesn't go back to Julia (or us).

How to by David

How to take your kids on a walk, by David

All sorts of things...

My mom is still in lots of pain, but that is to be expected since she underwent major surgery. She was moved to the othropedic floor today because her pancreas is behaving itself(as well as her bowels too!). She is still laying flat, however, she still got the head ache which is a side effect of the tear in the dura (the encasing of the spinal cord).

A huge praise for us today is that Julia grew! The were concerned about her growth, but she grew 3 inches and put on 4 lbs! She is 21 lbs and 29 1/2 inches long PRAISE GOD FOR THIS GROWTH. This means she is in the 5-25% for height and weight, which is great!

Completely unrelated, but my kids had some note worthy quotes this week....after leaving Julia undiapered to help her rash heal, I hear from Memphis "oot ooh, oot ooh, baby"! To discover she had pooped on the floor, so I wisk her away to the shower to clean her up while I clean up the poop, However, neive me thinks Julia is "safe" in the shower, however, Julia is having great fun because she discovered if she sits on the drain the water starts to fill our shower, not tub which proceeds to spill over on the floor...bathroom floored mop 1 of the week. Later this day, Gage and Memphis come running from the bathroom yelling, water--high, high---aka, the toliet is overflowing creating bathroom floor mop 2 of the week.

Some other note worhty quotes that I have said generated from my childrens doing...
"Get your feet out of the freezer....feet don't go in freezers, food goes in the freezer To which Gage replies why?"
No, we are not watching cartoons at three in the morning....they don't even come on this early!

Resting

Mom is resting comfortable now that they have the pain meds managed. She has to lay flat for 48 hours so that nothing moves. Dad went home and I am here now that David is home with the babies.

Surgery Done

Mom is done with surgery...talked to the doctor and he said she is doing well. She bleed a little more than he would have liked to seen so she is receiving blood. He used a bunch of words that were like greek to me, but this is what I got from it. They took out the disk at 3-4 and 4-5 and he fused it together and put some screws in it. Her nerve testing came out better so he is confident that it was successful.

Progress

Mom went into surgery at about 7:45 this morning. We got a call about 10:00 that the surgery was progressing well, but she was bleeding and needed blood product. They will call when they are closer to being done. Will update again when we know more.

Surgery

Surgery for my mom's back is scheduled for tomorrow at 7:00 am...please pray that her body can handle it!