Not counting Grandma G and Matt, we've reached the final birthday of the year as Mira turned 15 the day before Thanksgiving. In the spirit of giving thanks, we are so grateful for how generally healthy Mira has been over this past year. Especially this year with all of the limitations, it's been very nice to not have her spending weeks at a time in the hospital. Just two years ago was when she spent her birthday not only hospitalized, but in the PICU. (pediatric intensive care unit)
Oh, wait! Looking back at photos, it was three years ago that she was in the PICU on her birthday:
And since I'm reminiscing about late Novembers spent in the hospital, it was ten years ago that we had our first hospital stay with any of our kiddos when Reuben first got his diagnosis of epilepsy.
That diagnosis was one of two events in my life that break all of my experiences into "before" and "after." Reuben's diagnosis forever changed the direction that our lives would take, including being a major piece of what led us to the events (Krassi's, and then Bobbi and Mira's, adoption(s)) that led to the existence of this blog. Ten years.
[Deleted is the start of some other thoughts that were developing deeper, but I've got to just post this and move on - time is limited!]
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