Home Sweet Home

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all of our friends and family who took care of us the last four days. We could not have survived without your help and prayers! We are back at home today with AB and she is on the mend. The final diagnosis is still unclear. Her tests and lab-work never did show anything significant as the doctor's initially suspected. No major infections, just a plain old stomach bug. We spent most of yesterday focusing on her heart which was then suspected to have caused the blueness in her extremities but nothing major showed up there either. Her EKG did show an abnormality that the cardiologist picked up on, so we will be returning to see him in a few weeks when she is better to see if it resolved. An echo (ultrasound) was done yesterday on her heart which was normal and all her lab work was good too. The cardiologist thinks she had some weird "vascular response" to being sick and dehydrated. Pretty uncommon, but he has seen it before. I'm supposed to keep an eye on her color and it should go back to normal when she fully recovers, if not then he will have to do another set of tests on her heart and circulatory system. (She is still intermittently turning blue on her legs and arms..) Pray that things will continue to improve for her.

Here are a few pics from in the hospital...... nothing more pitiful is there?