Tink..Tink..Tink…

Thats me knocking on the monitor to see if any of you are still out there. I have not updated this site in almost 10 days and I aplogize for that. In all honesty, there really is not much to report, which I guess is a good thing.

Kelsey seems to be doing very well. Her heart rate at night is staying up, over 100 for the majority of the night. Her oxygen is staying up as well. This in conjunction with the elevated heart rate tells me that she is not having the severe apnea events like she was. We are, or at least attempting to, monitor her constantly throughout the day, thanks Icky. We have her on a Polar RS800 heart rate monitor that takes a recording every second. We looked at the data a couple nights ago and there were 8,300+ heart beats recorded. That is a lot of date to go through, so I understand now why the cardio team did not want her on the constant loop. Nicole and I will go blind trying to find one or two 5-8 second pauses in 8500 beats. Additionaly, these type of monitors are designed for teen to adult aged people, so we are in a trail period. I hope this works like we hope, Ick went to a lot of trouble and expense to help us out.

As for Nicole and the rest of my pack, things are pretty good. Nicole is still not resting very well, primarily because the other two girls won’t let her. Cambrie has started getting used to her crib and will sleep there most of the night. Thats a good thing. I have gone in our room during the middle of the night to find Cambrie as sleep against Nicole’s chest with Kelsey sandwiching her from behind. That can’t be comfortable. That’s why I have moved to the couch for a while, to give them enough real estate to stretch out.

Callie had a warm up gymnastics meet last weekend (warm up for the State meet) and did very well. She scored a 35.75, I was very proud! We go to Dawsonville this weekend for the State meet, which will be a big deal for her. She missed qualifying for Nationals by just a few points, but maybe next year.

Oh, by the way, last Saturday night we went to Sylvania to a rodeo, the first we have been to since we have lived in Georgia. For all of you who knew Nicole before we were married, you will appreciate this. They we having a calf scramble for the kids as a fund raiser. This is where they tie a ribbon on a calfs tail and have all the kids try to pull the ribbon off. Well, someone thought it would be good idea to have the ladies 18 and older try. Guess who was the first person to jump the fence and volunteer? Of course, she had to. She did not catch it, but had a good time trying. I especially had a good time watching. Trust me, there we pictures and they will be posted here on this site.

Like I said, not much to report medically for Kelsey, but as you can tell, life is slowing coming back to normal. My plans are to continuw this site indefinitely, so please check periodically.

In Christ,
A.