Surgery on a Monday... 12.09.13
HOME on a Monday... 12.16.13
That's right Piper's peeps... Girlfriend got her walking papers this morning!!
Home is where the heart is... The repaired, fixed, untransposed Piper heart that is!!
She must have heard all the talk about the feeding tube yesterday and really kicked it into high gear. She took the full 70ml's every feed for her night nurse and one time took an extra 50ml's an hour later. Can you say piglet?
Her labs and echo looked great this morning and by 11am the leads were off and they had the IV line in her hand removed. Here is Todd, our favorite guy nurse, in action. (He took great care of her last Monday in the hours after surgery too.)
We rolled into the driveway at 12:34pm still amazed that Piper was in tow!! We had planned on at least a couple weeks in the hospital post-op - so the mere 7 days she spent on the PICU floor can only be explained through the power of prayer. How great is our God??!!
As Bry and I sat eating dinner tonight (thanks Brad and Erin!!) I told him the last 2 weeks have been the hardest, most challenging of my life... But that I wouldn't change a thing. 3 weeks ago I would have fast forwarded 6 months if you would have let me - and now the fact that I thought that makes me sad.
Thank you to everyone who prayed for Pipe!! We look forward to the day when she can hear and understand just how amazing her story really is!!
And thank you to my mother-in-law who cleaned our house from top to bottom this morning making it "Piper ready" and oh so germ free!!
Let the (healing at home) prayers rise!!
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