Coming Home!!!

Sunday evening.....feeling and doing great!!! Hoping to go home tomorrow.

"Get me out of here, I'm going CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(see my message below)

Message comes to you from Rylie on Monday night.......

Another fun Stay at the Hospital (Ha! Ha!)

Well it's another fun stay at the hospital (ha! ha!). Rylie has been sick starting a week ago Friday with fever and some respiratory symptoms. We first thought it was the swine flu because she was exposed while at MDA camp (I will get camp pictures up as soon as we get home). So we treated her as if she did. The fever persisted longer then the swine flu usually does so we did some further investigating. She then started with back pain which made us think "Oh no, back infection". She had back surgery about 3 plus weeks ago so we thought we were in the clear for that, but with a fever for 6 days of 102 to 103 you had to wonder. We ended up doing a MRI of her back Thursday and sure enough there was infection. So we packed up our things and headed for SLC (Primary Childrens).

Rylie is such a brave girl. She has been down this road many times but still manages to put a smile on her face. She knows the name of each medication she's on and when to take it (What seven year old does that!!!). Rylie's very curious too....she has to know everything you are doing to her and why. All I can say is "Rylie, I love you and think you're amazing"

She went into surgery at 10:00pm Thursday night to flush the infection out of her back. We need to shout out a special thanks to the wonderful doctors. We had an anesthesiologist who made great animal sounds and doctors willing to sing Hannah Montana just for Rylie!
She spent the night in the ICU. Friday afternoon she had to get a pic-line (?sp) placed because of the strong meds she was getting. The meds kill your veins. You end up replacing IVs everyday and with her history, veins are a hard to come by anyway. But she was doing so well we got to move to the floor (out of ICU). Yea!!!!



Saturday we checked her labs to see if the infection was going away. Her numbers had jumped again. So off she went back to surgery. By this time there were no smiles.....understandably!! I would of been done before the first one even started. They did let me ride with Rylie in her bed down to the operating room. This was the happiest picture I could get from her.


Here's her back after 2nd surgery. They opened her up in 3 different places on the right side. OUCH!!!

It didn't take her long to bounce back to herself.....What a trooper!!!! I will try to keep you posted on when she gets home. We are hoping for Monday or Tuesday. Today her labs are heading in the right direction and she was able to go on a walk around the hospital with her dad. They were even able to have lunch together!

Having a Good Time for a Great Cause

My sister (Jamie) and I had the wonderful opportunity of participating in the "Little Red Riding Hood" bike ride for cancer last weekend. It was so much fun! It's a "women only" ride that consists of 2600 women all riding anywhere from 15-100 miles. It was awesome to see all the support from the dads and kids out cheering for there moms, grandmas, sisters etc., ours included.....(Thanks Erik, my sweet kids, Ryan and kids, mom, and dad) What a great experience to see women of all ages out riding for a great cause. I saw cute elderly women out riding there townee bikes, a woman from back east with her cruiser bike, a tandem team with one of the members being blind, and a whole bunch of other women out for a good time, us included.

Packet pick-up the night before (Wellsville Park). This is when you have to make the final decision on what length you really want to go. We decided to try the 64 miles......our thoughts were...."Can we really do this, oh what the heck, sure we can!!!"

Family Luau the night before!!!!


Starting line.....here we go.

My #1 fans!!!

Half way mark .... 30 miles to go.

Getting closer....

Even closer.....

Finish Line with my #1 fans waiting to give me a "High five" as I ride by.....

We did it!!!!! Now it's time to celebrate....

Field Trip Fun

Fourth grade field trip.....WOW....What a day! I had the opportunity of spending the day with Bryson in SLC during his fourth grade field trip. I wasn't sure what to expect other then probably a screaming headache when I got home...but to my surprise we had a great time and I stayed completely sain!!! I loved spending the whole day with Bryson and meeting all of his wonderful friends. What a great bunch of kids! Bryson had asked me to go earlier in the month and I jumped at the offer. Some of you might find that strange, but I know there's going to come a day when mom's not cool anymore and friends are the only people important. Taking opportunities like this to bond with your kids is the best thing in the world and I'll jump at the chance anytime I can. I was just glad he wanted me there!


State Capital.....What an amazing building. We got to see Governor Huntsman's office along with many other neat rooms while we were there.

Museum of Natural History.
Walking on Mars!!!

Bryson and Taylee have been special friends for many years. They have had every class together except first grade. I love to sit back and watch them. Taylee really watches over him and knows how to help him when he asks.


The whole wild Bunch!!!