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It has been 1,336 days since Gracie was admitted to the hospital, 1923840 minutes since Gracie was admitted, four birthdays, three...

Quick update: After taking some much-needed time off I am ready to get back to blogs every two weeks. They will be posted every...

On October 26th, 2021, Hank was scheduled to have his first open-heart surgery, the Glenn. As I mentioned in my previous post, his...

July 1st, 2021. 8 months and 4 days old. 246 days we waited to bring our bundle of joy home. The night goes without a problem and we make...

My heart sank when I heard that my baby was going into unexpected heart surgery. This was not a part of the plan that was discussed...

Staying the night with Grace was... VERY stressful. I knew the beeps and alarms like the back of my hand by now. I knew if things were...

Come October Gracie was still home, happy and working on building up her feeds. She was currently at 65mL/ feed 4x a day. It was still...

We were re-admitted on a Sunday and were hoping that it was simply a fluid in her lungs, a few extra doses of Lasix (diuretic) and we'd...

I was rushing Gracie to the ER. I continued to look back in the rearview to her baby mirror to make sure that she was still breathing. My...

February 21, 2020. It was game day. It was finally time for surgery. Emmy was in surgery from 7:00 am-4:15 pm. She was on bypass for five...

To say we did not think this day would ever get there n then here we were a family of 4 and our 3 pups. The pups were very interested in...

At 17 weeks, Emmy was diagnosed with Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus. In the simplest of terms, her heart is on the right side of her...

We received the worst news we absolutely could to this point. We had been through open-heart surgery, sepsis, and countless more things...

The first few weeks of being home with Hudson were a huge adjustment. Due to sickness in general and Hudson having a compromised immune...

Gracie was weening all of her meds, off oxygen, and overall doing amazing. But something was still off and we were about to find out exactly