Miracle Day

I know that everyone likes ice cream - maybe not as much as Jason but a sweet treat is always good. Today Dairy Queen is sponsoring - Pledge a Blizzard. All the proceeds go toward Children's Miracle Network.

A long time ago I told you about my friend's 18 month old Shaelynn. She is doing well and is having surgery early in September. You never expect your precious baby to get sick especially with such a terrible disease. Later the next month Jason's cousins little boy had a tumor similar to Shaelynn's. His situation was not as fortunate as Shaelynn's as he died a couple days after surgery. I can't image losing either of my babies.

I know that me buying a couple blizzards doesn't seem like much, but all together we can work together to help these children that are in need of love and healing.

I leave you with Shaelynn's mom's update a couple days ago. Pray for her and the family.

Here goes another long update and more changes!!! Today we went in to HCHC to get blood work done and Shaelynn's counts are awesome. White count 20.2, hemoglobin 9.0, platelets 312,000, and neutrophils 18,900. Since we started shots the day after chemo she will still have a period where her counts will drop off which will most likely be this week so we are going to continue shots all week at least until Thursday when we go for counts again.

Also we received a call from nurse, Sherri, who is Dr. Chaloupka's nurse. He is the doctor who will be performing the embolization, cutting blood supply to the tumor. She is an amazing and very sweet lady and very helpful. She informed us that Dr. Chaloupka will be doing the embolization on September 04th and that he is an awesome doctor and has done these numerous times on adults and children. She then said that the tumor removal will be on September 06th because they only like to do the embolizations 2 days in advance. She said that she will go under anesthesia for this and then have a light sedative for 6 hours after the procedure and be in the PICU overnight as they don't want Shaelynn to move a lot for those 6 hours and monitor her so that they can make sure after the procedure there is no bleeding in the femoral artery. (I think I have all of that correct). Then we will go to a regular room on 3rd floor on the 5th she is guessing and then have surgery the next day.

We will also be meeting with Dr. Chaloupka, Dr. Greenlee, and the Anesthesia Department on August 29th starting at 12:30 with Chaloupka and then on from there to every other place so that each doctor can examine Shaelynn, tell us what their plan is, and we can ask questions. That will be a very busy day it sounds so praying Shaelynn will be very patient and so will mom and dad.
SO....that is the change of plans as of right now and you know that it can change anyday and we have to just be on our toes and go with the flow.

Thanks so much for the prayers, we feel them everyday and know we would not be able to do this without them.
Love,
Sam, Drew, and Shaelynn