Who's the cutest girl around?

I am a mom of a cutie pie (very biased). And I wanted to share my experiences with others (including my cuties grandparents, great-grandparents, numerous uncles and other relatives). I love being a mom and can't imagine doing anything else.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Day +9

Livi woke up with just bangs and some fuzz today. Here face is also starting to get a little puffy from all the steriods she is on. She is looking more and more like a kid with leukemia. Today had its ups and downs. We were quite a few times last night. Not unusual for us but when we were up it was hard to console her. I realized she is definetly starting to feel so pain. She threw up a few times when she first woke up and there was some blood in it. They gave her a platelet transfusion to help with the bleeding. Otherwise, she had a good morning with Pa and so I got to catch up on some much needed sleep. Then when we were brushing her teeth the nurse looked in her mouth and noticed some mouth sores. So after some consultation with the docs and nurses we started to give her a bit of morphine every 2 hours to help her out. It seems to make her feel better...so much so that after she gets it she is incredible hyper. It was funny but also a bit nerve racking because she was crawling, rolling, jumping and moving all over her bed with no regard to all the tubes hooked up to her. On of the biggest concerns is that she might hurt her broviac by pulling it out or tearing the tube. These things would be horrible because they can't realy fix it right now since she can't leave the room. Instead she would have to have a central line or get stuck all the time. Neither of which we want to do. Everything seemed to make it harder to rest for her today. She fought sleep more than usual. I'm hopeing tomorrow is easier Thankfully the mucusitous isn't horrible. Please pray it doesn't get any worse. Her bottom is the same. It still looks pretty raw but it hasn't gotten worse. Pray that this continues
On other blogs of older bone marrow transplant patients they have mentioned tingling in their hands and tonight she wanted to wash her hands in cold water over and over and I wonder if that is why...or it could have been a stall tactic to delay sleep. Again she was saying new things today...our favorite from today was when she was standing in her crib looking at a screw in the wall. She pointed to it and said "hole" and then "da". After asking some questions we realized she wanted Daddy to fix the "hole". Almost as soon as he got her she started to say "hole" and point to the screws. James put stickers over all of them and she felt much better.

Here are two photos from today
Gigi trying to get Livi to sleep...obviously someone was fighting sleep. Oh and watching TV.

During one of the many hyper times. She is way to cute.


Thanks to whoever dropped off the gift certificate to Hershey Pantry. We are excited to try it out. All the nurses were raving about the food when we said we had a gift certificate.

I wanted to let people know that if they want to they can donate blood in honor of Alivia. As of the the transplant her perfect donor for platelets has changed. It is now A+. I'm not sure I understand why but I will talk to the doc about it to find out. Even if you are not A+ (for platelets) or O+ (for red blood cells) if you are in Pennsylvania you can donate and say it is for Alivia Haughery at Hershey Medical Center and we will get a credit so we don't have to pay for it. If you want to be a donor for her specifically you have to be donate in Hershey and I have to fill out forms that make you a designated donor. Please consider donating as there are tons of people who need it and the credit will help Alivia. And thanks to Uncle John who goes every 2 months even though he doesn't like needles. Thanks for loving Livi so much.

9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Emily,

I am up late and was just thinking of you...Livi is still as cute as ever:-) I am praying that any loneliness that you are feeling would just go away, and that you would know that there is a light at the end of this tunnel. I am praying for a sound sleep and sweet dreams for all of you guys. love, Leslie M.

1:29 AM  
Blogger momofcolin_chloe said...

Praying for everything you ask. Thanks for keeping us posted so that we can do that for you. Enjoy today with James! Hope that today is better than yesterday.

8:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yesterday sounds a bit trying, to say the least. I hope everyone has been able to rest enough to feel some refreshment. I felt for you as you struggle with the activity changes as Alivia takes morphine to help with her pain - I remember when my friend's young son was in the hospital with cancer, and they were challenged by some of these same difficulties. (He is now 25 years old and is engaged to be married! :)) You always post such charming photos - Livi has to be one of the most photogenic kids ever - but the one where she is lying down and looking up with that radiant smile and those big blue eyes - wow! - she could be posing for an Anne Geddes (is that the right name??) photo or something. So, so precious! I thought the story about wanting "da" to fix the hole was just too cute too. So sweet. I am praying for everything you requested. Hoping that today is an uplifting one for you.
Cathy S.

11:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WE ARE PRAYING FOR ALIVIA !
and PRAYING FOR YOUR FAMILY--- PM

11:46 AM  
Blogger beth said...

she's still cuter than ever...praying and thinking of you all. praying for livi. love you, beth

12:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Praying for Alivia and you all. This is a tough little girl. (We'll have to remember that when she's older and not mess with her!) Love, Aunt Cheryl

12:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm praying for each of you - thank you so much for keeping us up to date. Also, thanks for sharing how James fixed the hole in the wall, I'll have to try that myself sometime!!

Love you,
Maureen

2:01 PM  
Blogger Briana Almengor said...

I imagine you might be ready to throw in the towel at this point. I'm praying for grace to persevere, do one more hour, one more day. Praying for your sweet girl, too, that she would not pull out her broviac with all her newly found "energy". Praying that God would bring His supernatural healing to her whole body.

love you much, friend

3:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am praying for you emily and james. I am praying for more sleep for you guys, for livi's butt to get better, and just for complete healing. Try to get some sleep tonight. And the freemans are still working on that card, we have so many ideas, but no picture!:):):) And I loved the pictures you posted!:)

love,
moriah

P.S. I do love livi sooo much!:)

8:49 PM  

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