To keep everyone who loves me up to date, Mommy and Daddy have decided to document every day of the rest of my life with this blog....

Friday, December 30, 2011

Saint Faustina

Today my brother Brody blessed me (with the help of Mommy and Daddy) with a holy card of Saint Sister Faustina that was given to me by my Great Aunt Mar.  Her friends traveled to Poland and brought back a relic of St. Faustina and they pray for me along with my Great Aunt.  I can't tell you how blessed I feel to have so many people who I have never met praying for me and sending me beautiful messages.  I truly feel loved.

The last few days have been really hard on me.  Mommy decided not to post yesterday because I was struggling for each breath and we were battling a persistent fever.  But...today was a whole new day.  Mommy and Daddy woke up this morning to me in my room with just a diaper on and a cold cloth on my head.  We thought it was going to be another rough day, but we were all wrong.

At exactly 11am, Mommy got a text from my nurse Ines saying "Now, temp is 97.3, after her bath.  She coughed up thick secretions and is sleeping well.  Vital signs are great :-)"  That made everyone's day and the rest of the day was more of the same.  I'm still coughing up a large amount of thick secretions, but my fever is gone and I have moments of peaceful sleeping instead of struggling to breath.  Fighter is an underestimation!

My furry brother has been by my side all day.  Hopefully not just because we fired up the humidifier again (he is obsessed with water) or the fact that the oxygen concentrator gives off he (he is also obsessed with heat), but because he loves me!



















Let's hope tonight, I get to rest peacefully.  My heart rate is lower than it has been all week, so it looks like I am one tough chick who can take on any illness that is thrown at me!


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