Home Sweet Home
Posted 18 minutes ago
Well, wooo hoooo, we are home! We arrived home yesterday afternoon. Braeden soon disappeared into his room to play with his toys and the big kids. He was so happy to be home. He played quite a bit last night, even though we would hear "Ow" often. He was tired by bedtime though, and went to sleep really quickly. We are giving him IV fluids at night all this week since he isn't drinking or eating well yet. That went just fine last night--no beeping!! We used a fair amount of pain medicine last night too--maybe he played too much! He's happy to be home, though, and that's what counts. Unless there are any issues, we are home until Friday. Bub will have regular labs, a spot urine, and have some other stuff checked in clinic. Dr. Axtell will be talking to U of M, and we will be making arrangements for our next step. Please keep those details in your prayers, and our insurance issues as well! Lots of stuff to work out!
No matter what, though--IT'S GREAT TO BE HOME!!! :-)
I believe the insurance issues Dawn mentions means that when Braeden has treatments outside of Grand Rapids, insurance doesn't want to pay it.
I am excited to say that someone sent an anonymous gift to Kevin and Dawn and it will start his snowblower fund. There is a man from church who plows for him for free but he always plows his paying customers first of course. Kevin's driveway is long and gravel and last winter he was stuck 3 times. He doesn't like Dawn having to maneuver the drive in the snow when she has to often talke Bub to the hospital/clinic. They bought an old 4 wheel drive Pathfinder earlier this year just because of that. But now he's looking for a "beefy" snowblower.
Last night a old neighbor called. They have been moved away maybe 4 years now. Her son had talked with Kelly, my younger son, at the gas station a couple of days ago and Kelly told him about Braeden. As we talked, I sugested she look at the Care Pages and UM maybe contribute to the Children's Neublastoma Cancer Foundation. They are having a fund raiser soon. They encourage people to skip buying lunch and contribute the money they would have spent. So I thought it wasn't pushy to ask for her to do that. By the time we were done talking, she was hinting that she and her husband were going to start a neighborhood fundraiser for the snowblower.
She had done that for a neighbor boy who 25 years ago was in a terrible accident and his brother and another young neighbor were killed. The neighborhood got money together to buy him a waterbed because his shoulder was terribly broken and he could come home sooner to a waterbed than to a hard mattress.
Then she called back to make sure he wanted a snowblower and not a blade for a truck. Her husband was already looking into something. RAHHHHH!!!
