Free at last...

Finally some good news.... at about 5:45 Sadie was taken off the IV!!!! She was told this morning that her part to getting home was to drinking lots and lots of fluids and man did she!

Here is her all un-hooked!!

Good-bye IV pole!

One Bad IV...

Today Sadie had a really bad experience with an IV which blistered under the dressing and caused her tons of burning. The entire story can be found at Sadie's site http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/sadiejordan- needless to say it was a long day today full of unexpected surprises.

After they turned medication off. The one that is creeping out of the dressing is the one we watched appear.

This is prior to the five injections in her arm.

All bandaged up!

Puffy Hand!

Last night Sadie was having a lot of pain in her IV hand. The nurses realized her hand was getting pretty puffy and it was time to take that IV out and start a new line. After it was out - Sadie had about an hour of being "free" from tubes!! Here is a picture of her hand (no knuckles, no wrist!). The nurse said it will take about 2-3 days for the swelling to go down. All ready this morning you can tell she has a wrist (still no knuckles).

Syrah's visits

No one under the age of 10 can visit Sadie; sadly this includes her sister. Syrah has made several waves from outside the window, but no matter which nurse, doctor or staff member I beg and plead with (which I have done several times); the answer remains no. So, yesterday Bill brought Syrah down and the three of us went for a bite and to walk around so that we could have some time together. (Sadie's Aunt Maria, cousins Jake & Nicole came and played games with her). While Syrah was waiting for the "transition", her and Bill walked around and took pictures with all of the "animals" in the hospital. Here are a few of my favorite shots:

I just have to make note to Syrah's bite... especially in the last picture you can really tell that her bite is changing!!

We really miss being all together as a family and are continually praying that this all goes as quickly as possible so that we can all be together again!

View from within...

Just thought I would share some shots of what we are seeing each day.

The pumpkin farm - field trip

Last week Billy was able to take a day off to go on a field trip (Syrah's first) with the Kindergarten class to the pumpkin farm. Bill said it was a blast and from the pictures it appears that it was.

Here are some of the kids with a few of the puppies at the farm!

Class photo!!!

~~Prayers for Sadie~~

Calling all prayer warriors; I am asking for prayer around Sadie. I usually keep all medical stuff to her site, but this is whats going on in our "family" right now, so it is important that I ask you all for prayer. Not having a church home to request prayer from is hard right now, it would be comforting to know that there are people out there lifting Sadie up to our Lord!

Sadie is on day two of her stay at Children's (she was admitted Thursday, but they don't count it since she got a late start on meds). She is sound asleep right now.. I type this while listening to her breathing. She has shown so much courage over the last two days and more patience than most. She has been woken up every few hours and had people moving her, poking at her, asking her questions (just what any person wants to deal with coming out of sleep).

My request is just for speedy healing... we were told originally about five days here should do it. Then yesterday we were told it could be 7-10 days. Far cry from where we were a year ago preparing to leave for Disneyland. We would all like to see Sadie come home as quickly as possible, I don't know anyone that enjoys the atmosphere of the hospital. We are pretty family oriented people and the fact that we can't all be together is quite hard on all of us... if we could all be here together it might just make it that much easier.

I will try to get some updated pictures on here soon... another fun zoo trip, Syrah's first field trip (to the pumpkin farm), view from our hospital room (which is actually quite nice).

Thank you for all your prayers and support.