Category: Family Life

Today has been a good but very busy day! On rounds this morning, they made a plan to start decreasing one of Benjamin’s 2 meds that he is on for the withdrawl. We are going from 6 times a day to 3 and if he tolerates that (which he did today so far) then the…

First off, Happy Birthday to David today!!! We are going to celebrate together later when he brings Andrew to the hospital. It has been a week since Andrew was here to visit Benjamin and a lot has happened. It will be fun to have the boys together to interact and I think Andrew will really…

Today has been a busy and a good day so far. Benjamin was moved off of the PICU this afternoon! They wanted to do it yesterday, but his awesome nurse Emily pushed for him to stay another night because of the seizure that he had. We were very grateful that she did that. It gave…

I can’t believe it’s been a week since we were to see the pediatrician and ended up in Riley’s ER! In some ways it seems like a week but in other ways it seems like months ago. So much has happened. Benjamin continues to do well with his respiration. He is off of all breathing…

Today has been a good day! I spent the night in West Lafayette and a bit of the morning with Andrew. He has been missing his brother a lot. He told his teachers at school about his baby brother in the hospital. Maybe now he will consider sharing at least one car with Benjamin when…