This is the first morning that Matt's reported that Mira's doctor says she appears to have turned a corner. This morning's x-ray was the first one that showed any signs of improvement. Up until now, the only thing that looked different on each day's image was the date!
Her blood work, and the various things they're tracking there (platelets, hemoglobin, CO2) are still not looking great, but also not trending worse. They're also going to be chasing a few other things related to why she's having such trouble voiding.
At the moment, the kids and I are going to be preparing a Thanksgiving feast for just us without any help from Daddy. That means I get to grill. It was going to be a pretty low-key day anyway, as we have no family coming, and nowhere to go, but with our new plans, we're just looking forward to having DADDY come home from the hospital to eat supper with us tomorrow! He will be family enough, and we'll be grateful for that!
Many memories surrounding this week anyway...it was seven years ago today (the day before Thanksgiving) that Reuben was at Gillette for his first time as a 16 month old baby and we witnessed his first two tonic/clonic seizures and got a diagnosis of epilepsy. It was seven years ago tonight that I stood in the hallway at Gillette on my way to the bathroom (being 10 weeks pregnant with Rinnah) and realized that I was no longer afraid to adopt a child with special needs, because I had just learned that morning that I already was a mother of a child with special needs. Seven years later, here we are with a child who is in our family as a result of that moment of understanding...again spending Thanksgiving at Gillette.
(I've written more about that hospital stay and Reuben's diagnosis HERE and HERE when I first started this blog almost five years ago.)
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