Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!… this year it has taken on a whole new meaning to our family! My mother will be walking through front door, any minute now, and will start acting “momish” about the fact that I am sitting on the computer instead of drying my hair, so I will try to update you quickly ( and before I get caught 🙂 )  As soon as she walks in she’s going to ask if I am going to get ready and tell me we need to get going…  Dad is spending today with Kerrie and we are going to Ron’s for the afternoon.. as usual, I am running about an…

I spoke with Mom a little while ago and Kerrie seems to be doing fine. She’s still a little groggy from the anesthesia, but the only problems seems to be she’s a little sore where they put the feeding tube in. I suppose she would be… hopefully it doesn’t last too long. Mom gave me some of the details of the surgery, but since I don’t “do blood, needles, surgery, etc.” too well I will just leave it at “she has her feeding tube.” There was one small, teeny tiny, itsy bitsy incident today.. when she was being moved from her Stryker chair to her bed the catheter port in…

Kerrie had the feeding tube inserted this morning and everything with the surgery went fine. They had no problems extabating her, so she didn’t have to go back to ICU, and is now resting comfortably in her room 🙂 I know people have tons of questions, but that’s the most info I have right now. Mom will call me later with more info on what’s to come and what all the doctors have to say. Once I have more info I will let you all know.   Jenn

I haven’t been able to get an update on here for a few days, so there’s a lot to catch up on! I’ll try to be as brief as possible, while still giving you all the details you crave.. and without having to have you spend five hours reading this post 🙂 FRIDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 17th I got to the hospital around 9:00pm and my heart started pounding the minute I walked in Kerrie’s room..Ron and Alisa were there visiting with  Kerrie and they didn’t look alarmed… but I could see, from the doorway, that her right eye was extremely dialeted… but before I totally freaked out I had enough sense…

As of today, we are one month out from transplant. Happy 1 month Birthday Kerrie.. I wish we could really be celebrating this and doing something fun, like packing you up to bring you home… According to Mom, Kerrie is doing OK and still working hard at trying to speak. When Mom left for work, yesterday morning, she told Kerrie “See you later alligator” and Kerrie tried to respond with “after while crocodil”. Although it was difficult to understand her, Mom knew what she was trying to say. We keep telling her to stick to one syllable words, but she insists on trying to speak as she normally would. For a few…

Talked to Mom a little while ago… Kerrie is doing fine and has been active today. Physical Therapy was in to do some work with her and are working on ways to get her sitting in a chair. Her bed is too high to lift up and out of it, and into a chair, so they are working on some ideas. I’m hoping they come up with something as I am sure sitting in a chair will be more comfortable than trying to sit up on the edge of the bed!! It’s good for building up her strength, but she can’t do it very long and I am sure it…

Hmm.. once she starts talking you can’t shut her up. Well, at least not for the five minutes she had the energy to try to speak.. Kerrie may not completely look like Kerrie right now, but she is definately in there somewhere.. and fighting to get out. She actually had us laughing tonight, as she showed she can still get irritated with me and still has her sense of humor. Robin, her nurse, and I noticed that she is having a small problem with words like “you” and “I”, when she means to say “me” and mixes them up, but she knows she is making mistakes and keeps trying. She…

What a busy day! I had hoped to be able to post earlier than this ( it’s 10:00pm) but it’s been very hectic today and Kerrie’s room STILL has no internet. The IT department is “working on it”..maybe in a day or two. The nurses have allowed me to use on of their computers, so that I can get an update on here. WE LOVE THE STAFF ON P2 ( and at Henry Ford in General). Kerrie was wide awake, at 5:00am, watching TV.. I know this, because I was also wide awake at 5:00am pleading with her to turn the TV down so I could sleep 🙂 Doctors rounds…

Back at Mom’s, to take a shower and get some laundry done, so thought I would update everyone while I was here. Still don’t have internet in Kerrie’s room, but hoping that will be corrected today. It’s been brought to my attention that some family & friends have a misconception of how well Kerrie is doing and I am thinking maybe I have been painting too rosy of a picture of her in the last few posts?  I have been trying to give everyone what good news there is, and not make everything look like gloom and doom, but I guess maybe I have made things appear more positive than they…

I arrived at the hospital around 9:00pm, last night, and was so happy to see Kerrie I wanted to cry. She has lost a lot of the water weight and fluids she’s had, so she looks a lot thinner than when I left. Part of her were really bloated, like her hands and feet, so it was nice to see they had gone back down to normal size… except now she looks so fragile, that I am afraid I am going to break a bone when I try to help her with her excersizes.  By the time I got there, she was pretty exhausted from all the activity they put her…