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      • Feeling better
        01/30/07
        Rachel's already feeling better. Either she just had a cold that aggravated her lungs while they were still clearing up or we caught it early enough. Either way she's pretty smiley.

      • Update
        01/28/07
        We went up to the ER in Hibbing. Not too many other people were there so for an ER it was relatively fast (4hrs) and everyone was really nice and friendly. Her primary pediatrician came in to see her and he agreed that we could take her home. The first Dr. wanted to admit her overnight but she�

      • Sick again
        01/28/07
        Rachel is just beginning to get sick again so we're going to run in and get her some antibiotics. Of course it's on a weekend again so we have to go to the ER. She's feels pretty good, smiley and not having to labor to breathe like last time. We caught it really really early so she

      • Wednesday, Thursday
        01/25/07
        Rachel had a good day in both therapy and school. In therapy they worked on the same things and next time she goes I'm going to send pictures with of the family, puppy, and some other of Rachel's everyday things. School went well they had the jungle theme again and for show and tell Rach

      • Tuesday
        01/24/07
        Rachel's future cousin Gage is officially due! Rachel had a good day, very talkative and making happy sounds, not complaining ones.

      • Monday Therapy
        01/22/07
        Rachel was pretty sleepy for therapy today. In speech therapy they practiced swallowing and doing rib stretches so Rachel can take deeper breaths. In PT she had Carol and she stretched Rachel out.

      • Thursday School
        01/18/07
        Today I cheated on being creative and used Rachel's teacher's account of how the day went at school today. Thanks for the e-mail Dina! :)

        Rachel seemed much more alert today and required less suctioning than last week. She was smiling when she arrived and then Kari read her the

      • Game night and Therapy
        01/18/07
        Our neighbors and Luke's mom and step-dad were over for dinner and game night on Tuesday. Rachel (and Kari) helped me measure ingredients to make bread for dinner. Then Rachel eventually fell asleep in her chair for an hour or so. We brought her upstairs to get her dinner but then she woke u

      • Monday Therapy
        01/16/07
        Bev, (PT) was very happy with how Rachel did today even though Rachel had been sick for a couple of weeks. They worked on head control and knocking stuff over. In Speech, Teresa showed Kari mouth stim exercises. Another thing they do is hold up two toys and ask Rachel to look at one. If she look

      • School Day
        01/12/07
        Today I went with Kari to Rachel's school. It had been about a month since the last time Rachel was there so she got tired out by all the activity. Before the break she was able to stay awake and would hardly need any suctioning.
        While the other kids were eating Kari read Rachel a stor

      • Wednesday Therapy
        01/10/07
        Rachel had a great therapy day today. She had a 45 minute nap before they left for therapy and her speech therapist thought she did so well that we should try to do that every therapy day. In OT Rachel had fun riding the peanut ball with Germaine as if it was a pony. She was able to do that for 1

      • Monday Speech Therapy
        01/09/07
        I've been so tied up with Rachel being sick I forgot all about therapy! Rachel did go to speech therapy on Monday and she did very well. Still working on getting her to look at pictures. (Her therapist holds up two pictures and asks her to look at one of them.) She does good when the pictur

      • Good night
        01/08/07
        Rachel kicked this really fast. She doesn't need extra oxygen and she's getting a lot of her strength back. Thanks for praying for her!

      • Sunday
        01/07/07
        Rachel's feeling much better now. We're watching movies in the living room this afternoon. Rachel has her speaking valve on and is making up for the last week of having to be quiet. (We didn't put the valve on while she was sick.) She's been chattering non-stop since we put it

      • Saturday
        01/06/07
        Rachel's feeling better, she even tolerated her stander for an hour today. We watched a bunch of old videos and we had Rachel watch movies of when she was a baby. Some of them I didn't remember as well so it was really fun. Even the first therapy videos we did were almost a year ago. S

      • Getting better
        01/05/07
        Rachel is a little better today, she's smiley and needs a little help from the oxygen. Hopefully she'll be strong enough next week to go back to therapy and school.

      • Dr. Visit
        01/04/07
        We just got back from the Dr. and he said that we should expect that it will take her a while to get over this. Normally people who get pneumonia will have a cough for weeks. Then it will start to look a little worse when all the gunk in her lungs finally breaks up and she's able to cough it

      • Still Sick
        01/04/07
        Please keep praying, because she hasn't kicked this yet. We're going to go see her Dr. and maybe get more x-rays of her lungs. She's still on a little oxygen and she's had about 4 days of antibiotics. Luke's on his own today so I might go home early from work and we'

      • Still not feeling too great...
        01/03/07
        Rachel is still pretty sick. She had a really good nap from 5pm until whenever she woke up... sometime after 9pm when the nurse got here. But then she needed a lot of suctioning and a little help from the oxygen again. At 1 am her nurse gave her a nebulizer treatment. When I got up she was tryin

      • Better so far
        01/02/07
        Rachel needed a lot of suctioning today but she seems to be doing much better. She's sleeping now and I turned off the extra oxygen and she's still doing okay. Hopefully she'll have a good night.

      • Okay night
        01/02/07
        Rachel had an okay night. I put just a little oxygen on her to help her out a little bit and a nebulizer treatment at 3 am. Her nurse gave her extra vest treatments and her lungs sounded a little clearer a couple of times. It's so nice to be home and have some one taking care of her that kno

      • Home again, home again, jiggity jig . . . .
        01/01/07
        Rachel seems very happy to home. We have more oxygen tanks and a nebulizer. As back-up for the O2 tanks we have an oxygen concentrator that filters out everything but oxygen out of the air. We won't normally need them but it's nice to have them tonight since her lungs haven't cleare

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