Zane had his surgery Monday morning.  He was not able to come off the oxygen so they keep him over night.  He is still in pain and sleepy but he is home. 

We will redo the sleep study Friday May 11^th. 

THANK YOU for all the prayers and phone calls.

Pam

March 31, 2007

October 19, 2006

Hello All!!!

Zane is doing great!  He is walking and yesterday he figured out that he likes OREOs!!!  (I think Uncle James won’t like this too well so don’t tell him.)   I am so excited!!!  It is such a break through.  He will walk to our pantry and stand there until we give him a cookie.  Then he will walk back to his room with it.  It is awesome!!!

Zane is having surgery on Monday.  Not a big deal and becoming a routine procedure… It is to take out the granular tissue around his trach and inside.  I believe it is blocking his air way above his trach.  The good thing is that Zane does not have to stay the night in the hospital.   YEAH!!! 

Trent’s friend from high school just had quads a couple of weeks ago.  They were born at 26 weeks same as Zane.  2 boys – 2lbs and 2 girls – under 2lbs.  Three of them are doing great.  Hunter though is having a rough time.  He has a sever brain bleed and not expected to live.  Zane was not expected to live several times either.  I believe God had no choice but to let him live because he got sick of hearing all the prayers that we all bombarded him with.  Can you please say a prayer for Baby Hunter and the rest of the Hutchison family?

This has taken me back to relive Zane.  I want you to know how much I appreciate everything you did.  Just a simple call or email really kept me going.  When you think to yourself - “I don’t want to bother them.”  “They don’t want to hear from me.” “I don’t know what to do.” “I don’t know what to say.” Or EVEN “They won’t know who I am.”   DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT BAD BAD VOICE!!!  The visits, the phone calls, and the emails uplifted me, kept me going, and I didn’t feel like I was alone.   When I would hear from people I didn’t even know, it really amazed me.   You do not have to say anything except “I am praying for you” or “I just wanted to let you know I am here for you.”   

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DID THIS FOR ME!!!   I feel so blessed to have you!!!  Trent and my kids do miss all the wonderful food.  (Hint Hint – Courtney Cartwright)

Pam

www.carepages.com   HutchisonQuads

August 25, 2006

Zane is VENTALATOR free!!!  YEAH!!! 

We got home yesterday and that wore me out.  What is worse than going to the hospital when Zane is sick?  Well, Let me tell you… Going to the hospital when he is well!!!  He crawled up and down those halls.  He had a great time “running” from nurses. 

The nurses were very excited to see how great he is doing.  I wonder if the nurses get to see the kids much after they are better. 

Now we have to stay healthy through the winter so we can take the trach out.  The nursing hours are now being cut.  I have mixed emotions about this.  YEAH – We can have our house back and be a “normal” family.  BOO – I think I will cut the night hours since Trent is here to help… less sleep. 

My mom is still here AND Zachy is getting VERY spoiled. 

Pam

PS- I am still looking for a Speech Therapist and a Physical Therapist

August 19, 2006

Hello, All!!!  We had a great vacation.  NO ER visits which is always good.  He had a great time… we all did.  The one thing I could not tell you was that first we went to Abilene to surprise Trent’s dad for his 60^th birthday.  It was awesome.  We got to take Zane to their church and Terry got to introduce Zane to his congregation.  I do not think any of us had a dry eye.  I don’t know who had more fun… All of us getting to surprise him or Terry getting surprised. 

BIG NEWS – On our vacation, the hospital called and said they have an opening for Zane to come in to get him off the vent.  Monday morning I am taking Zane into "Our Children's House" for a few days to get him off the vent.  The trach will still be in place.  He still has to make it through the winter OFF THE VENT to be able to take the trach out. 

Zane still isn’t eating AND we have lost our speech and our physical therapist since we moved.  He is licking Fritos.  I will attach a picture.  

Alexis started Kindergarten Tuesday and she LOVES it.  It has been four days and I am still crying about the whole thing.  I will attach a picture of her in her uniform. 

Zach is having a hard time not being able to go with Lex.  The only comforting thing is that he is going to Sunshine school and his teacher will be Mrs. Leslie.  If you remember Lex had her and she LOVED her.

OH my mom is dropping EVERYTHING to come take care of the kids next week while we are at the hospital.  THANKS, MOM!!!

Sorry this was so long… I think I am rambling now, so I will go to bed.  Pam

August 2, 2006

Long time no talk…which is a good thing…No more hospital stays.  We spent one day at a couple of ERs but other than that we have been good.  (GTube came out and the hole closed up.)  We are still on the waiting list to go back in to get completely off the vent. 

We moved to Forney a couple of weeks ago, so I have new info to give everyone.  It is in the country with a swimming pool with an awesome front porch.  I LOVE IT!!! 

10634 Bradley Cir

Forney, TX  75126

New Home: 972-564-1808

Cell is still the same

New email:  PamelaBrown@cebridge.net

We are going to try to venture out of the house on a vacation with Zane and NO NURSE.  We are going to Hot Springs next week.  Pray there will not be any ER visits!!!  J   After all the oxygen tanks, vents, monitors, medicines, nebulizers, suction machines, I hope there will be room for the rest of us!!!

Pam

PS- Before you ask, we will not be changing churches.  (ARE YOU NUTS???)

April 6, 2006

WE ARE HOME!!!  Yeah!!! Two weeks is WAY too long.  All the nurses remembered us and were great.  I actually didn’t mind being at this hospital. 

The granular tissue that they took out of Zane was blocking his air way… BUT it was above the trach so when he had the trach in, he was fine.  When the trach came out, he turned blue then gray.  He did it so many times while we were there.  He freaked a lot of nurses and respitory nurses out. 

I am so happy to be home with ALL my kids and my hubby.  Poor Trent… I really have to give him BIG points for this one.  He went to work all day in Forney, brought me dinner every night in down town Dallas, then drove all the way back (usually late) to see Lex and Zach, do housework, etc…  FOR TWO WEEKS!!!  He had such a great attitude too. 

YEAH WE ARE HOME!!!!!!

Pam

April 2, 2006

Zane is doing so much better.  He is still on the vent 24/7 and the settings are still up BUT he is finally off the oxygen.  YEAH!!!   He is back to his playful, cute, silly self.  It is so amazing how in love I am with my kids… even Zach.  HEHHEEEEE  It is a good thing Zachy is as cute as he is because sometimes he is a handful!!! ALL BOY!!!

Last night Trent stayed up at the hospital for me so I could come home.  My mom left this morning so we are all headed up to the hospital.  We are hoping to be able to come home tomorrow BUT you know how that goes. 

OK are you ready for the THANK YOUs?  I have a long list…

• Grandma and Grandpa with Dakota for keeping the kiddos

• Tory, Liya, and Rain for letting Zachy stay the night too.  (Funny story)

• Thank you, Steph and Sean, for too much to list!!!  (spending the night, packing lunches, clothes, driving them to school and MDO, etc…)

• Thank you, Talley, for putting up with Zachy’s abuse and keeping them those nights and not throwing Zachy to the curb.

• Sephanie Ownby for taking the kids home from school AND driving them home.  Trinity, they had a GREAT time playing with you!!!

• Thank you, ladies (who I don’t know who all did it yet) that brought us casseroles!!!  THAT IS HUGE!!!!  My kids thank you too!!!

• AND THANK YOU, Grandma with the mouse, for dropping everything and driving from Amarillo to keep the kids and cleaning my house.

• Thank you for all your calls and emails and prayers!!!

HOW CAN A FAMILY BE ANY MORE BLESSED???? 

Love, Pam

March 31, 2006

I talked to Zane last night on the phone!  What a cutie!!!  He said “Hi” and “Dada”.  He is feeling so much better.  Pam said since he was not saying Mama yet the nurses wanted to have him saying “Mama” in sign language before he went home.  

His oxygen is still at 40% so the doctor wants to keep him there over the weekend and into the first of the week.  They do not want to let him go home until his settings are back to normal.  Grandma from Amarillo is staying with Zack and Alexis until Sunday and after that Pam & Trent will need your help again. 

Thanks, Aunt Debbie 

P.S.  Zane wanted me to tell Grandpa Happy Birthday!  

March 28, 2006

Hello, this is Pam's sister Debbie, and I am going to try to update everyone on Zane. Pam is still with him 24 hours a day at Childrens, Floor 7, Room 402. The phone to Zane's room is 214-456-7702. She wanted everyone to know that his procedure went well and they could not find anything wrong with his Nissen, therefore no reflux! She also said he would not have to go to the ICU. His fever is down, but still has the ventilator settings relatively high. He is acting a little better, and sleeping alot. When he is feeling better the Doctor wants to do another scope procedure, and then maybe he can go home! Sooooo in the mean time I know that Pam will need help with Alexis and Zack.

Thanks for your love and prayers,

Debbie

March 26, 2006

Zane is scheduled to undergo another bronchoscope in the morning.  They will be checking his throat and his nissen/stomach to see if everything looks ok.  His lungs may have fluid in them indicating he may be aspirating into his lungs.  Right now the nissen blocks anything from going back up his esophagus from his stomach preventing reflux.  If the nissen surgery has given out, then he may be having reflux, which is going back into his lungs.  He may possibly have to have surgery again to repair this.  We will know more tomorrow after the procedure.  Thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers.  We will update this tomorrow.

Trent

March 23, 2006

Zane has a temp of 105.  He is working very hard to breath and needs oxygen.  We are headed to the ER at Children’s.    Sorry I haven’t been able to call anyone before you got this message. 

Pam

February 10, 2006

Hospital again Hospital again, Jiggety Jig…   Just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?

Zane has the Roda virus and is dehydrated.  We tried to keep him home by the Pedilyte but it just isn’t enough.  Our nurse woke us at 3:30am ready to go to the hospital.   I am waiting for the doctor’s call and then we are out the door.

My mom is coming in from Amarillo to keep the kids.  Talley might keep the kids until mom gets here.  (I say might because she doesn’t like getting woke up this early… Maybe it is my singing???   NAH!!!)

I will email later with more.  Pam

February 7, 2006

Actually the stay was not all that bad.  All the nurses were super nice, and I even got to sleep most nights.  Zane is doing great, and I am sure he is happy to be home too.

OK Bad news now… I was already preparing myself for it but it is definite now.  Gelfand said this morning that Zane would not be getting his trach out this year.  It will probably be May – June ‘ish’ of 2007  IF he can make it through next winter.   We are still going to work on getting him off the ventilator so that is good.  The final diagnosis was RSV (even though he gets shots every month not to get it) and an infection in his trach.

I am sad because I was ready to start being a normal family.  It is hard to give up my plans and turn the control over but I know it is the right thing to do.  You would think that I would have already learned to do this BUT I have a hard head. 

Thank you to everyone that helped with the kiddos!!!!  Talley, (of course!) Amy, and She She … Trent’s parents have them now in Abilene and Talley will bring them back Thursday.   (Gail is sending Zach home potty trained!!!  THANK YOU, GAIL!!!)

Yeah we are home!!!  Pam

January 31, 2006

Frustration!!

I hate the hospital. I hate the hospital.  First we were told that his xrays showed either pneumonia or a small part of his right lung collapsed.  RSV was ruled out.  NOW they are saying that the RSV results came back positive.  Which means it just has to run it’s coarse.  We will probably be in the hospital a week or so.

The phone number to the room is 214-456-7702.

Sorry for little details but I am in a hurry…  Pam

http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/rsv.html

January 30, 2006

We are headed to the hospital.  We are all sick but Zane is bad.  Talley is keeping the kiddos for me tonight.  She is such a lifesaver!!! 

They already have a room ready for us at Children’s E7 room 402.

 I will email as soon as I hear something.  Pam

 PS – Today is Trent’s birthday!!! 

January 12, 2006

Hello, All!!!

It has been a long time that I have sent out a bad report AND I do not miss it!!!

GOOD NEWS first… Zane’s procedure was a world record in time.  The time we left him to the time they came to get us to say he was done was MAYBE 15 minutes!!!  There was irritation under the G-button (feeding tube) area that is probably causing all the bleeding.  Everything else looked good.  Yeah!

BAD NEWS… Hospital was horrible.  (I really don’t know how we did that for 7 ½ months.) Zane has been off the ventilator for 16 hours a day for almost 2 months with no oxygen most of the time.  Tuesday when we went into the hospital we were off the vent and no oxygen.  That night he was on the ventilator with 40% oxygen.  They did blood work, blood gases, and took chest xrays.  I had him down to about 27% by the time we left the hospital last night.  This morning he is back up and cannot come off the vent at all.  I just got off the phone with the doctor. He said if they would have got his blood work back last night before we left, they would NOT have let us leave.  His white blood count is way high.  He wants us to go back to the hospital right away.  UGGGG   He is going to give us 24 hours with antibiotics and tobi (this is the breathing treatment that cost $3,240 and should cure cancer for that amount).  If he isn’t better, we are checking back in to the hospital tomorrow.  :(

HISTORY… I don’t know why I remember this date expect I remember promising to give Zane a spanking on this date one year ago.  1/11/2005  - I walked into the NICU room, and Jennifer (Zane’s day nurse) and Dr. Minnich looked terrified while they worked on Zane.  I remember standing back thinking this is “faith”.  There was absolutely NOTHING I could do but pray as I watched them save Zane’s life AGAIN.  They will always have a special place in my heart. 

Pam

PS-THANK YOU Ladies Bible class nursery for keeping the kids, thank you SHE SHE for taking the kids home with you AND thank you GAIL for driving all that way to keep the kids.

January 5, 2006

Hello, All!!! 

Zane is doing great.   We still have not heard from Our Children’s House to schedule him to get off the ventilator.  This is actually a good thing because Zane along with the rest of us are trying to get over colds.  I don’t think he could have made it off successfully.  He couldn’t go without oxygen and had to be put back on the vent several times to keep his sats up. 

Zane has been having trouble with his stomach.  He has a button that goes to his stomach that we feed him through.  (The boy has teeth but won’t use them!!!)   We don’t burp him the conventional way either...  All we have to do is open the button and the air comes out.  The past several months when we do this along with the air, we get dried blood.  SO the GI doctor wants to go in and take a look to see what is going on.   

We have to go in on Tuesday the 10^th but the “procedure” is not till Wednesday the 11^th.   Gail is coming for the surgery but I might need someone to keep the kids part of Tuesday depending on when we have to go in.  Do I have any volunteers?

Pam

PS-OH I almost forgot… Zane is finally rolling over!!!  YEAH!

December 8, 2005

I have to share something my kid can do that I bet your kid can’t!!!

OK you know that Zane has a trach which is below his vocal cords.  He can get air past his trach to make a little noise but it isn’t much unless he is really mad.  There is a filter thing (HME) that we put over the trach when he isn’t on the ventilator.  If we take the HME off the trach, Zane will stick his thumb in the hole to plug it up, so he can make lots of noise.  It is very funny and he is very proud of himself when he does it. 

Sorry I had to do a big explanation for such a little thing! BUT I do have it on video.  : )

Pam

December 6, 2005

Hey, everyone!!

I am so excited to share this news!!!  Zane is ready to come off the ventilator!!!  YEAH!!!  He is currently at 16 hours off the vent a day and is doing great.  The bad thing is that we have to back into “Our Children’s House” (UGGGGG!!) for 4 days and 3 nights.  They will call us when they have an opening, which can be anytime from now until after the New Year.    THEN hopefully the doctor will still let us pull the trach sometime around summer.

Zane is 19lbs and growing like a weed.  His blood gas was awesome and I am so excited!!!

Yesterday Zane had to get X-rays to rule out Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bones).  I am not too worried about it.  Today was vent clinic and Thursday is RSV shot again. 

Busy week…  THANK YOU Stephanie French for keeping the kids so Trent and I could go out last night and THANK YOU Talley for keeping them today while we were at Vent Clinic. 

Love, Pam

November 3, 2005

Can you believe Zane’s birthday is just a few days away?    I can’t!!  Everyone keeps asking what we are going to do for his birthday.  (It still surprises me that so many people remember when his birthday is.)   Well, we have racked our brains trying to figure something out.   I SO want to take him to church and introduce him to EVERYONE.  I want to show all the church how well he is doing.  I want to show them what their prayers did.  I want them to see that he has the cutest smile with a BIG dimple and his hair is going to be curly.  I want to tell them that they kept me going through all those months.  I want to show pictures of the scary, little alien he was and the perfect, little guy he is now.  I want to make a great speech telling them all these things and how much I love them. 

What?  WHAT AM I SAYING???  I could never do that!  I can barely speak with more than 4 people looking at me. 

OK so we will be reduced to staying in our house AND inviting everyone to come for the festivities.   

Tuesday, November 8  at  6:00 to 8:00pm 

RSVP so that we can make sure we have enough hotdogs and cake for everyone.   Email or phone 972-278-6585

Pam

PS – I finally spoke with the doctor today and we get to start weaning his vent again!!!!  YEAH!!

October 21, 2005

Today is the wedding of my best friend from childhood.  Alexis is the flower girl and Zach is the ring bearer (We might need to send out a prayer request for this!!).  Trent’s dad (Terry) is performing the ceremony so hopefully they won’t be yelling out “PaPa” like they do when he preaches.  J

Tomorrow we have a birthday party for Anna, which we have to leave early for Alexis’ soccer game.  Then we have to rush home for the Tech vs Texas game.    If Terry and I live through this (Terry is a Texas fan), then they will take Alexis and Zach home for a few days.  I will take a nap.

The kids and I got a cold last week, which we gave to Zane.  L  We have to be much more carefully about keeping the kids AND me away from him while we are sick.  It is so hard!!!  This cold set us back on the weaning of the ventilator.  Today will hopefully be the first day back to 6 hours twice a day off the vent.  Zane did get his first RSV shot last week and he will have to get it every month during the winter months.

Zane got his second helmet in and it is working beautifully.  The first one was a disaster and did not work.  This one is completely different.  His head is getting more and more round everyday.  His ears are still a little lopsided and his right check still protrudes a smidge.  BUT his forehead looks much better.   

Eating… UGGG!  You know he has the button that we hook up to the formula and it goes directly to his tummy.  We do this every 4 hours so really I don’t think he gets hungry.  We try feeding him the conventional way but he really does not want it.  He is very good at holding his mouth open for as long as it takes to drool it out.  I have tried applesauce, desserts, oatmeal, bananas, milk with baby rice, etc… I don’t think it is the taste but the texture that he doesn’t like. 

OH, we have teeth!!!  (We won’t eat but we have teeth!!!)  He is sitting up with minimal help.  He is still working on rolling over but he is connected to so much stuff that it is hard.  He LOVES his sister and brother.  They can make him laugh so easily!!! 

Love, Pam

September 20, 2005

Long time no talk!

I have gotten out of the habit of writing.  I know when I have gone too long because I start getting emails wondering how Zane is doing.  He is doing great.  17 ½ lbs and off the vent 4 hours twice a day.  I do not think we will hit my goal of being off the vent by his 1^st birthday but it shouldn’t be much longer after that.  The goal is to pull his trach out at the beginning of summer 2006.

Anyway, we went to vent clinic today.  This is where they Xray his lungs, do blood work, and give us new orders for the month.  Dr. Gelfand told me today that Zane’s Xrays look “normal”.  What is “normal”???  Normal for Zane, Normal for a baby with Chronic Lung Disease, Normal for a normal every day kid,…????   HE SAID… NORMAL FOR AN EVERY DAY KID!!!  Can you believe that???  Little Zane’s lungs are normal!!!  I did my best not to cry like a baby.  I am amazed everyday of how very blessed I am. 

Can you believe it has almost been a year?  Crazy!!!  Things are coming around that reminds me of that time… “pre-Zane” or “Pregnant with Zane”.  Halloween – I think of Alexis dressed as Annie talking to more complete strangers than she will probably ever do again (except maybe on Halloween again).  Zach was (maybe I should say suppose to be) an elephant but he wouldn’t wear it.  I think about all the walking we did and wonder… “what if” I would have stayed home and rested instead.  “what ifs”… as my sister’s in-laws say… If “ifs and buts” were candy and nuts, we would all have a merry Christmas.  Yata Yata!!!    We had a sign up for our class party.  We all went to that last year on Saturday and Zane was born that next Monday.  Just little things remind me.

In other parts of our lives… Alexis played her second game of Soccer today.  It is a blast to watch.  She scored two or three goals.  Zach does a great job cheering her on and terrorizing the rest of the parents and siblings. 

I will try to write more often.

A Very Excited, Pam

PS- Thank you, Julie, for keeping the kids on your birthday, today, while we went to the vent clinic.  (Sorry, I forgot that I told her I wouldn’t tell anyone that today is her birthday.)  Thank you, SheShe, for keeping the kids this Friday for me!!!  (Shirley does have some openings at her home for any of you looking for a daycare.)  I am looking for a babysitter for Thursday night if you know of anyone that doesn’t have school the next day.

August 15, 2005

We are HOME!!  I LOVE HOME AND I love my bed AND I love not having any buzzers going off every two seconds for no reason!!!!  I LOVE that my nurses here don’t come in and wake me up to ask me silly questions!!!

Zane did great.  He can hear just fine.  His ear canals are very small and were filled with wax.  The doctor cleaned them all out and made a hole to drain some fluid in one ear.  He removed the granular tissue around his trach site and did a bronchoscope.  Everything inside looked good too.  

We didn’t get home until 7:00 tonight so we are beat.  I am going to bed!

Pam

PS- Thank you, Browns and Davenports, for keeping the kids!!!  Thank you, Chelsea, for keeping the kids for tomorrow’s doctor’s appointment.  UGGGGG!!!

August 10, 2005

Good afternoon!!

Isn’t it nice that you don’t get very many emails from me now? 

Yesterday at the “Vent Clinic” all of Zane’s tests came back good.  Blood gases are wonderful.  Oxygen is down to a half of a liter, which is VERY little compared to the beginning months.  The Doctor weaned his vent more and now I officially get to take him off the vent....30 minutes twice a day.  Next week it will be an hour twice a day and following week will be 2 hours twice a day.  OH and he is 15lbs 6oz. 

Trent is taking the kids to Abilene Friday and then is playing golf on Saturday before he comes back.  (No, no golf for me… but I am not bitter about it at all!!!!!!!  I am claiming that they just don’t want to be beat by a woman. :) )

Anyway, we take Zane to Children’s Hospital Sunday morning sometime and the surgery will be first thing Monday morning.  The Browns will bring Alexis and Zach back Monday, I believe.   SO we don’t need kid-sitters, but thank you to all of you who have called and offered!!!

Have a great week!  Pam

July 27, 2005

Hi all,

We have had a full week or two.  Last week we had doctors’ appointments almost everyday.  Then Sunday my sister, Debbie, and family came.  Of course they took the kids to the water park and six flags and spoiled them beyond belief!!! 

Last week we had a great appointment at the “Vent Clinic”.  This is where the nurse and I take Zane back to Our Children’s House downtown to meet with his pulmunologist. They take blood, look at his X-rays, etc…  Everything was great.  They weaned him down on the ventilator and then gave us directions to wean more a week later, which we did.  He is doing great.  VERY EXCITING!!!

Then next appointment was with the Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT) doctor.  He tested Zane’s hearing… well the movement of his eardrum.  It was not good again. This is the second one he has failed.  SO the ENT wants to admit him back into the hospital for a night and do a “true” hearing test.  We check in Sunday, August 14^th.  Monday morning they will put him under and check out his ears.  If it is just fluid, the ENT will put tubes in.  This way we will know exactly what is going on.  He will also do a bronchoscope to remove any scare tissue and the granular tissue around his trach area.  We should be able to bring him home that day.

I think that is all the new news.  Have a great week!  Pam

July 17, 2005

July 11, 2005

July 4, 2005

June 24, 2005

Are you ready for these updates to end?  We have been together for so long it is going to be hard to break it off.  Really… what mother wouldn’t like to have an audience for her stories of her baby????

The first week was… exciting!

Monday:  We came home in our wonderful van.  We didn’t have a nurse until the night but it was nice.  My mom was here and she took the kiddos out for several hours.  Trent and I were alone with Zane for the afternoon… OK OK Trent was really alone with Zane because I took a nap.  HEEHEEE   AND Jennifer brought us food…mmmm!!!

Tuesday:  Trent took the kids to the water park.  The nurse and I organized all the supplies and equipment.  (THERE IS A TON OF BOTH!!!)  I believe Lexie and I made our third Wal-Mart run at 10:00 that night. 

Wednesday:  Zane had his first pediatrician appointment.  He pulled his trach out right when the doctor came in.  My niece and nephew came for the night.  THEN the electricity went out for about an hour and a half.   My mom, her hubby, niece, nephew, Alexis, Zach, Zane, Nurse, Trent, and a partridge in a pair tree… all in the dark!!! 

Thursday: Everyone left.  Trent’s mom came and picked up Zach to take him to the Red River Encampment.  Lex is staying here so she can go to VBS.

Friday:  Lexie and I were lonely.  Amy Smith came to visit and brought us some of her wonderful food!!!

OH AND so far … all the horror stories have heard about home nurses have NOT came true.

Have a great weekend!!  Pam

June 21, 2005

ZANE IS HOME!!!!!

Can you believe it???  I can’t...  Seven and a half months later.  (I have to put the half in there, because it was a hard half month!!!) 

·        19,353,600 seconds

·        322,560 minutes

·        5,376 hours

·        32 weeks

·        224 days

·        7 months, 12 days

AND all 14lbs are home!!!

I was not able to hold him for the first 2 months of his life so I am going to make up for that now!!! 

Pam  

PS-If anyone else wants to help me hold him, you are welcome!!!

June 16, 2005

OK… I am not going to say when Zane is coming home since I have jinx it too many times already.  PLUS I said I was not going to say anything until they put us in the car and tell us to “GO HOME”!   SO stop emailing me!!!  I AM NOT TELLING YOU THAT IT IS THIS MONDAY 6/20/05!!!!!!  Got it???? 

Yours truly, Pam                                                             

June 4, 2005

You want the bad news, good news, or the excellent news first????

Bad news:  Zane is NOT coming home this week.  I am going to stop saying that he is until they actually put us into the car.  (Next week hopefully!!!!)  We are waiting for the insurance to get their paper work in order.  Everyone else is ready to go.  VERY IRRITATING!!! 

Good news:  WE HAVE MEDICAID!!!!!  I love my government!!!  They were able to override the clause that said we HAVE to be in a nursing home.