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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…

Last night Benjamin was pretty agitated. The nurses are continually surprised about how awake he tends to be at times, even with the sedation. If it were me and I had a tube down my throat and I woke up, I would be pretty mad too. When he sees me, he seems to be pleading…

I thought it would be a good idea to try to keep up a blog with updates on Benjamin. I will keep it up as I can. You may already know that my 13 month old preemie became very sick last week. He is in the pediatric ICU right now at Riley Children’s Hospital. I…

We took a quick trip to Indy last week for a doctor appointment. Since the appointment was at 8am we decided to spend the night there and went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. If you call ahead, you can sit in their special trolley car. This was right up my toddler, Andrew’s alley!…