sing like wildflowers

My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.

Category: hospital

  • Hi everyone, I’ve completely fallen off the  blogging wagon for about 2 weeks now. We went to visit her and our visit got extended as her condition worsened when she was home from the hospital: lack of appetite, aches and pains, weakness and extreme fatigue, vomiting, and general malaise. It was looking bleak. I’d sit…

  • Thankfully, she’s home and not in pain. She still has her, which the doctor will assess for removal on Monday. Home health aid and physical therapy coming next week. Crazy to believe that she was walking in June and now she’s bedridden. Is her regaining strength even a possibility?

  • I can’t believe this. My mom has been going to the hospital almost every other week. I just got off the phone with the paramedic and they’re taking her to the er for check up and some kind of treatment. Her main symptom is blood in urine, heavy. According to the paramedic, this could be…

  • Thank you everyone for your prayers, comments, and encouraging texts! They buoyed my spirits and made me feel heard and seen. My mom’s surgery was successful. It was a two hour procedure and the anesthesiologist was full aware of her heart condition and pacemaker. During the surgery, the surgeon removed a 12 cm. mass from…

  • This picture was taken in San Diego on June 2nd, which, unbeknownst to me, started a harrowing 2 months of stress, sickness, and a hectic scehdule. I wouldn’t have minded a mundane beginning to summer. Even in San Diego, we started Elliot’s accelerated summer course in World History.  Both of us were panting from playing…