Oh you didn’t think that something bad happened did you? 😛 Dirty trick, sorry. Guess what?!?! As I am sure you gathered from the messy house. WE’RE HOME!!!
Since Evan’s Broviac removal, echo, EKG, and boy surgery went so well and were done so early yesterday they decided to let us go home on Thursday instead of Friday! We’re very happy to be home but we’re exhausted from the long day of packing, moving, unpacking, and getting in our last minute visits with as many people as we could find. I can’t even explain the emotions we were feeling today, it was insane. Very excited and happy to finally be going home. Sad that we were leaving our heart families and caretakers. Nervous about what the next several months is going to bring. And more powerful than any of those… shear elation that everything went well and we were able to go home with our hands full and not empty. Too many parents are not as fortunate as we have been. We finally got home at about 8PM, enjoyed some delicious Pizza King, and started getting settled in. Mr. Evan started to get cranky and we realized that we didn’t get any baby tylenol from the hospital for pain, so I had to take a trip to Meijer at 10pm. What? Well yes, of course I took Evan, are you kidding me? And look what he spotted…
Milks!
We wanted to get pictures of Evan with as many people that took care of him or were directly involved in his care as we could, too bad we thought of it the day before we left. We missed several people, 🙁 . You’ll see many faces in the gallery below. I can’t say enough good things about the people at Mott Children’s Hospital. I couldn’t even thank them without turning into a blubbering mess of emotion. Not that there’s any way to adequately thank someone for saving the life of your child. Everyone there just loves our little guy and you should have seen them light up when they heard he was going home. Wonderful, wonderful people. We’ll be seeing them again in 4-6 months for surgery #2, the hemi-Fontan.
Going home outfit provided by Barb VanEseltine all the way from Thailand. Thanks Barb!
Enjoy the pictures! Be sure to look at page 2 and 3 of the pictures as well.
Sarah and Will : YAY! You made it home, with Evan! I am so very happy for you guys, I cannot imagine how great it feels to be out of a hospital setting. I mean what’s more normal than a 10pm run to Meijer?? Love it. Keeping you in my thoughts this weekend while you are transitioning back into the real world. Wishing you nothing but peace and happiness 🙂
The family looks so comfortable together in the house and he got to see his new room. Joy! Counting the minutes when I can come and help with baby. xxoo
WOW! This might be the very first time I have ever every heard of anyone getting discharged a day EARLY!!! Go Evan!! I remember than moment when we finally got home looking at the pile of junk from living somewhere else for a month and thinking, “Where do I even start?!”. SO glad you guys are home! Yea! 🙂 🙂 many of those faces look pretty familiar to me too… 😉 Mott Hospital is AMAZING!! 🙂
awesome to see Mia’s note made in into the photo book! I about lost it when I saw the big bird pic… can’t WAIT till our Big Bird pic. I hope it”s ok, but I added your website to Mia’s page.
Absolutely, thanks for adding our site to your page. I was thinking last night that I would add something to our page for “other heart families we follow,” but I was just too tired. I’ll definitely include you guys.
Looking at all these great people who took care of my little bear. God bless each and every one of them. So happy you are home and dont worry about the mess. It will all get put away eventually. Enjoy Evan being home. Dad cant wait to see & hold him. Hope we are there soon. Love you
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The house is a mess!
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