Going Home

It's official. They are letting us take Emilia home. She gets discharged from the hospital tomorrow morning. She is coming home with a near clean bill of health. The only extra issue we have is a feeding tube she will have to keep in for a week or two. Emilia takes a bottle, but eating requires a lot of extra effort on her part and she wears out fast. What she will not eat from a bottle goes into a feeding tube that runs from her nose into her stomach. It is not ideal, but it could be worse. After nearly two weeks of being in the hospital, I am anxious to get her home and to get back to life!

We feel incredibly blessed, not despite this event but because of it. We have so much to be thankful for that we have recognized because this happened. First of all, we are grateful that we live in a time where a condition that was a death sentence a few years ago is a relatively easy condition to repair. There are children in this hospital who will never live a normal life because of their health problems. We are thankful that Emilia will have no lasting effects from this. We have a lot of friends and family that love us. I always knew this, but I did not realize truly how many friends we had until they all rallied together to help us through this time. Holy cow, you all did so much! And you all did it so willingly. It eased the burden. We are thankful for the volume of people who jumped at the chance to love and care for our other children. We had more offers here than we have kids! We are thankful for the health we and our other children have taken for granted until now. More than anything we are thankful that in a few hours we get to take home our baby, and that we have the chance to love her and watch her grow and live her life. I want to thank every person individually who helped us through this, but there are too many of you. Please know, it meant the world to us. We love you all!