For the Love of Mending Hearts: Day 6- WE ARE HOME!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Day 6- WE ARE HOME!

I will post about today's CRAZY DAY but for now just know that we are home. Now to snuggle in and enjoy being home :-)

Thanks to all of you for your good thoughts and prayers! They worked!

Tracey

4 comments:

Michelle said...: That is so wonderful! Home sweet home is so great especially sweet after hospital stays. Enjoy your baby girl and each other.

xoxo ~ Michelle
www.withallmyhearts.blogspot.com; January 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Awesome news! I'm so glad that everything went smoothly & that you're already back home! Praise the Lord. Praying Jordan continues to do well at home & you can get back to "normal". :)
In HIS Grip,
Emily for her boys; January 18, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Shannon said...: Awesome! Enjoy the cuddling in peace now! :) We'll still be praying for Jordan as she continues her recovery. She's a tough little girl!

Big heart hugs and prayers,
Shannon; January 18, 2010 at 9:06 AM
connie and adam said...: YEAH! Your home take care of the precious little girl. Snuggle with her and love on her a lot since your not in the hospital. :); January 18, 2010 at 9:34 AM

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I’m a Wife & Mom of 3-2 boys & a girl. Riley is 10, Drew is 8 & Jordan is 4. My sons keep my husband & I moving all the time with sports-baseball, football & basketball mainly. Jeremy & I play volleyball & softball so we are busy with that too. Jeremy works at UIHC as an Implementation Consultant (he trains on Epic currently). I have run a daycare out of my home for the last year. Prior to that I worked at the U as an Auditor (I know, I know) & a real estate agent/personal assistant.My daughter, Jordan, was born August 9, 2006. Just about everything about the pregnancy was "normal" and she was born by a scheduled C-section. She was born at 8 lbs 3 oz and 20 inches so she wasn't a small baby. She lost almost a whole pound before leaving the hospital but we were sent home thinking it was normal because all newborns lose weight when they are born. Her doctor thought she had heard a murmur but figured it was a ventricular murmur & it would close up on it's own as many babies are born with this. After 2 weeks, her doc didn't hear it anymore so no further testing was done at that time. Jordan had issues with her weight & growing overall. She dropped off the "curve" & created one of her own. We would go in throughout the year just to have her weight checked. We still didn't know that anything was wrong. At her 1 year wellness check, our doc thought she heard the murmur again. Her doc hadn’t heard her murmur before which we found out that can happen. Some are just silent until it starts to work harder or has some "wear and tear". This was a Friday. We were at the peds clinic at UIHC Monday doing tests & found out her heart issues. By Wednesday, we had her open heart surgery scheduled for the following Wednesday & was home by Sunday afternoon. Talk about a whirlwind!!Once we learned more about this condition, we learned that there were signs that we brushed off as Jordan just being Jordan. The sweating when she sleeps, not moving more than a 5 ft radius once she was put down even at 1, not eating much in one sitting along with her lack of growing (Failure to thrive just doesn't seem to fit to me when she is always smiling & laughing) were just a few of them that alone no one really thinks about but together may have brought up concerns. We don't ever remember her having blue spells or any other reasons for us to have her heart checked out prior.Now, a year later, Jordan has gotten bigger and starting to "catch up" to those her age. She is energetic & plays with everyone. She can take bumps and bruises I think better than her older brothers! We still worry about what is going on with her ticker because it changes at every one of her check ups. She still has a murmur & at her last visit in December, we found out that she also has subaortic narrowing. It is definitely something her doc is keeping an eye on.