PRAISE GOD WE'RE HOME!

Hello everyone, it's me; Shea! We are back home and doing well. I want to send a BIG thank you filled with hugs and kisses to all those of you who have been praying for our family, for those of you who came to sit with us at the hospital, for those of you who came to visit Addison in the hospital and at home, for those of you who called...sent cards...lit candles...and kept us in your daily thoughts and prayers, for those of you who have brought dinners, for those of you who stayed over night with us in the hospital, for those of you who traveled from another state to be here with us, Dr. Bailey and his team of doctors and nurses we call Angels, and most importantly to our Heavenly Father who has always stood by our side even when we didn't know he was there...thank you for guiding Dr. Bailey and his team in a successful surgery on our special gift, Addison; which you have entrusted us to take care of for you.

Addison is happy to be home and is sleeping much better than in the noisy, pokey, proddy, nose suctioning hospital. Although they were all so awesome poor Addison would flinch every time one of her nurses walked over to her with gloves on. They did what they had to do and took great care of my baby. After 3 days in the hospital, low grade fevers, not eating, and suffering trauma to her throat from the intubation while fighting a new cold Addison quickly grew strong enough to come home. I think the visit with her big sister Peyton motivated her on Friday. That is when we got a glimpse of our Addie with her little smile and tongue sticking out. We are so happy to have her home but I think she is the happiest!

Here is our story in pictures...

The Night Before Surgery



Surgery Day 2/1/09


Observation 7:00am



Dr. Beautiful (named by my cousin Stephanie) taking Addie into surgery 8:30am


This is the message we received on our pager to let us know that she was out of surgery..."Addison is in unit 5800. You may join her there please." close to 12:41pm


Unit 5800, Addies out of surgery...








The card from Peyton's school (SCA)...we LOVE them! She also brought cards from every child in her first grade class.



Dr. Bailey and us...


On the road to recovery...


Visit with Sister...




Look at what they did to me sister!


Leave it up to Peyton to get that tounge out :O)


Yeah...Sisters here...that makes me happy


Going Home today!


How do you get this stuff off?


Bye Bye everyone


Thank you 5800





Just for fun I wanted to share two special pictures that hang on the wall of the 7th floor of LLCH. The first one is of Dr. Bailey with his first heart transplant babies. The second is of Dr. Bailey and the surgical staff on the helipad holding heart shaped cards.