RIP Zoie

I have to say - this was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life :(

My Final Night with Zoie :(

My finale night with Zoie just her and I had a slumber party. Daddy, Brayden and Kubota slept out in the living room so I could have some alone time with her. I spent lots of quality time with her. She even got a HUGE can of wet food for dinner:

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And we gave each other LOTS of Snuggles & Kisses!

I am going to miss her SO much :(
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Random Craziness

Brayden and his bruises. I have no idea where this one came from:




Here he is all snuggled on the couch in his towel fresh after his bath:


Sad news - Jade had to be admitted to Doernbeckers Children's hospital again :(

Went Back to Work

Sears Portrait Studio called and wanted to know if I wanted to work there again. I decided I would help out with the busy Easter season and then maybe one day a week after that IF they have the work and then maybe again come Christmas. Started today and it sure was was weird after being gone for so long...not to mention all the other employees were laid off (except 2) when I was and the manager has quit since I left so it was totally different. One employee during the week, the manager from Salem helping fill in and one weekend employee. Crazy. We shall see how it goes.

Went to see Jade at HOME!

Since Gee got home from the hospital yesterday we decided to go spend some time with the whole family at their house tonight. We took stuff over to make dinner (BBQ Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli w/ melted cheese & Garlic Bread) and even took some dessert. We had Pumpkin Pie and this super yummy German Chocolate Brownies:

Glad she is finally home and on her way to a full recovery (even though it will take awhile to get her back to normal).

Jade is home!

♥Gee is finally home!!!

Jade is coming Home!!!

YIPPEE!

Jade should be able to head home sometime this evening!!!!!!!!!!

Jade is Tube Free!

Jade is tube free, with the exception of her IV. They took her feeding tube and lung tube out yesterday. Today she is finally perking up a little and finally interested in doing a little playing (like stickers, etc). She has one dose of anti-biotics left tomorrow and then she will hopefully get to go home this weekend. The only thing keeping her at the hospital right now is that she isn't eating or drinking enough and she had to have more IV fluids yesterday. Can't wait until she can come home to finish recovering.

Here she is playing 'I Spy' with mommy:

Thank you everyone for the prayers!

Poor Brayden & Zoie

Poor Brayden looks like he is abused lately. Now he has a mark next to his eye to add to his collection. A friend hit him in the face with a toy gun.

And poor Zoie. Here she is scratching her butt on the wicker dog bed. LOL!

Miserable household huh?!?

Zoie bit Brayden again :(

Here are some pictures taken with my cell phone:

Everyone PLEASE pray for strength for me because I will probably have to have her put down within the next two weeks. It is going to be VERY hard for me because I have had her since she was a baby (about 8 years) - but I have to put Brayden first.

Our Trip to see Jade yesterday!

She is finally out of the ICU and onto a regular floor. She had one lung tube taken out but still has the one in. She had been running a fever off and on so they are watching her closely for infections anywhere. Since having the respirator taken out she has still had to be on oxygen - but that is still an improvment! She is finally starting to look a little more like herself.

Here she is when we first got there. Sleeping like a log:

This is what is being drained from her lung. You can see the stuff on the left is much darker and thicker. This is what was coming out at the begining. As you can see the stuff that is coming out now is looking alot lighter and better. I can't believe this much has come from her one tiny lung.

She still isn't feeling very good but agreed to eat a little bit of a happy meal. She ate better then we expected and were thrilled because if she hadn't eaten they were going to start feedings again that night.

Her and Brayden really wanted to play together so her doctor agreed to a 10 minute wagon ride! She was not very happy about being moved into the wagon cause it hurt her (see her crossed arms):

Daddy got to pull Brayden in his OWN wagon behind her:

Since she is still on oxygen and fluids we had to tag all that along with us:

We decided to take Brayden for a walk around the hospital to get some of his energy out before we loaded into the car for the trip home. Here are him and daddy looking out the window:

Here is Brayden HANGING from the window:

Ok - not really:

I want a drink too daddy:

That's better:

Jade even sat up for a little bit to color with Brayden:

The dads:

We can't wait for you to come home and color with us Jade!

AnotherJade Update

Went to see Jade yesterday. It was a GREAT day! I even got to take Brayden with me this time. When we got there we set Brayden up on the bed with her and she smiled for the first time since she has been there!

Brayden and Jade's Daddy watching some cartoons in the hospital room:

No clue why he has his hand in his mouth like that:

Sweet kisses from mommy:

The boys playing with Play Doh:

Can't wait for her to get better:

And the BEST part of the whole day - she got her breathing tube out:

She is on her way to recovery!!!!!!!!!!

Jade Update

Went to see Jade yesterday. It was actually a pretty good day. Downs sides were that her fever was up and she also had to have a tub inserted into her other lung. The fluid on that side was less so that was a good thing. They were also able to start tube feeding her. Positives - she opened her eyes a few times, squeezed hands and nodded her head. When I got there I walked up to her, put my hand on her head and said, "Kristin is here" and she opened her eyes to look for me. I asked her if she wanted Buddy (Brayden) to come see her and she wiggled her fingers on my hand. Just before putting the tube in her I told her, "I have to leave for awhile, do you want me to come back?" and she shook her head YES! I think they are all positive signs! I so look forward to when she can be fully alert and off the respirator so that she can talk. Here are a few pictures:

Jade is in ICU at Doernbeckers

Juanita's (the one who had the twins) older daughter Jade (who is 3) is in the hospital and very very sick. She has been sick for a few weeks but it started out just as a cough and fever. They couldn't get the fever under control and it turned into full blown flu. From there is just keep getting worse and worse. Even after several trips to the doctor they were unsure what was going on - but just assumed it was a horrible new flu virus. Juanita took her back to the doctor on Friday because she just wasn't getting better and was becoming very listless. The doctor checked her temp which was finally back down but listened to her lungs and directly admitted her to the hospital. They weren't sure at this point what was going on but figured it may have turned into pneumonia. Here she is Friday at the Corvallis hospital:

She wasn't getting enough air with her lungs filling up so they had to put her on oxygen. I was there seeing her for several hours and she never once came out of the listless stage she was in. Woke long enough to cry when she would cough and then right back out of it. They had her in a quarantine kind of room (because they aren't sure what she has) and you have to wear a mask and such just to go in. Here is a picture from Brayden visiting (they are BFF):

He really didn't want to wear the mask but decided he would cause he really wanted to see her. He would lay his head on the bed next to her and rub her leg and say, "Me's here Gee". It was so very sweet. He took her a stuffie (you can see the pink elephant in the one picture) and a snugglie. It was a brown and pink heart blanket that I couldn't talk him out of (man the kid has expensive taste).

Later that day her situation seemed to just worsen so she was taken by ambulance to a pediatric ICU (Doernbeckers). The nose oxygen just wasn't doing the job and she had to be respirated. She has a tub in her nose draining the fluid from her stomach and one in her lungs draining fluid from it (and lots of other tubes doing who knows what). At this point she is in complete sedation until they see some signs of progression. They were hoping to start tube feeding today but her poor little body just wasn't ready for it. They are really unsure what exactly is going on - or what has caused all this but they do know that the infection has spread to her blood stream. They are watching all her organs closely because of that and also because when her lungs filled up they were SO full it moved all her organs around from pressure. She has been having a few heart problems also - super high spikes then major lows so they have done several scans on it to. Here are some pictures from Saturday once she got settled into ICU:

Brayden is very upset since he can't go to the ICU right now to see her. If you are a praying person - please send some Jade's way. Also - prayers for her family...mom and dad are unable to have the twin babies with them right now and that has been very hard on them to. Thank goodness for the Ronald McDonald house who has put them up. They are hoping once she gets out of ICU they can bring the babies with them. Sounds like they are expecting to keep her there at least another two weeks. I will have another update tomorrow as I am hoping to make it back to see her.

If you got this far - thank you for reading.