Chanse is hospitalized.

The test show that he has Romatic Fever. However, the specialist says NO! He has been admitted into Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. They will be doing more tests. They think he may have arthritis. The GOOD news..if it's the kind they think it is, it's curable. Tests came back positive for Lupus and Romatic Fever. The Arthritis Tests came back Negative. How does that even make sense? How frustrating!!!

BEST NEWS EVER!!! Chanse has ROMATIC FEVER.

Test results came back positive for Romatic Fever. This is not a good thing to have but it sure beats the alternative. The illness has now infected both sides of his body. He is unable to use his hands, so mommy gets to play taxi. Jody is taking him to a Disease Specialist as we speak.

UPDATE: The Great Pretender.

We spent the weekend with Pops. I realize he's not as well as he leads us to believe. I call him everyday and he tells me he's feeling good. After spending a couple days with him I realize this is going to be a long, hard road to recovery. I also realized he's not out of the woods. He was having some heart pain and sweats while I was their. He also gained 8 lbs. That worried us until we started adding up all the food he ate. For Dinner he ate a great big steak, potato Salad and Strawberry Shortcake. Oh and lets not forget the Rootbeer Float. The next day he had his coffee, 2 BIG Strawberry Shortcakes, BIG bowl of cereal, 2 Rootbeer Floats, A HUGE B-Bque Hotdog (actually the hotdog bun was so big we put two dogs on each one) anyways, we figured that had to add up to 8 lbs. After his nap he has lost 5 of the 8 lbs so we quit worrying about that. He ended up going into the Doctors yesterday, he's still having heart pain and short of breath. The doctor said he don't have water building up around his heart. They are taking more tests. The Heart Doctor Jody works for said if we realized how close to death dad was we would be more pleased with his condition. They feel like he's doing fine. His incisions looks great, the drain holes are nasty, they leak.

Our thoughts are with Chanse, my nephew.

They say it comes in three's. Jody's son, Chanse has come down with some sort of illness. The Doctors have not been able to pin point it yet. He has had numerous test done. We are anxiously waiting for the tests to come back, it's suppose to be today. It started out with sore ankles and some swelling. The illness has spread very quickly and aggressively through out his body. The swelling is horrible, it has effected a lot of joints and especially joints that have had previous injury. His hand is so swollen he can not bend his fingers, Jody is very concerned his hand will maintain circulation. He is unable to hold up his arms or walk on his foot. His blood count in dropping every day and his excedrate is multiplying his sugar is down to 67 and is peeing out whole white blood cells. He is in horrible pain, and is unable to get much rest at night. He has had two Lupus tests done. One came back positive and the other negative. We are waiting for a Romatic Fever test to come back, today hopefully. He has had tests done on his heart, no damage!!! If the tests come back positive for Romatic Fever we will be celebrating. I know Romatic Fever is not good to have but the alternative is so much worse. They are pretreating him with Heavy Duty Antibiotic and 2,500 mg of Asprin. Say a prayer for Chanse! I will keep the family posted.

Dads 2nd Therapy Appointment

Dad had his second Therapy Appointment yesterday. He's zapped!!!
They wanted him to walk on the Treadmill for 7 minutes. The therapist's assistant went on break forgetting Dad was still walking. Seventeen minutes later he was still walking. He is getting his hearing back in his left ear. He's healing well, all is good.

Grandpa and Bry are TWINS...well maybe not twins but they have something in common.

Here's Dad's inspiration!!!

Actually she's inspires all that meet her. This little girl has had two open heart surgery and she is still smiling. She's a tough little cookie. She wants to be a wrestler, and one thing for sure, she'd win.

Spring has Sprung!!! Hooray.

I think spring is finally here. No more snow!!! We are so00 s000 excited for warmer weather. Warm weather means BOATING...I cant wait. We spent the day doing yard work. Mike and Nicole are burned. It was 70^ today. Here are some last year flowers from my yard.

I really like the quote on this picture. I thought of my parents when I seen it. They have been married for 42 years.

Welcome Trinette Louis to our family...

Malinda gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl Friday April, 19th at 9:00 p.m.
She weighed 7 lbs. 4 oz. and was 19 inches long. Grandpa Bailey (my uncle) said he held her for 5 hours last night. He said she is so strong she can hold her head up by herself. It sounds like they had quite the party. She had 11 people and a picture of her mother in the room waiting to welcome Trinette into the world.

UPDATE- Friday, April 17th 2009 Dad starts therapy

Dad began therapy yesterday. With the procedure Dad had, comes therapy. Thirty Eight weeks worth, twice a week. The Therapist was very impressed with his progress and said he may get away with 18 weeks of therapy.

Dad did what he always does, pushing it and now paying the price. He told my mom he felt his heart skip some beats which made him kinda gasp with shortness of breathe.

The Therapist said his incision and Drain Holes looks real good, with no signs of infection. They don't have the Drain Holes covered, they said they heal better when they are air dried.

He slept good through the night. He's really tired today, he gets up for a short time and needs to nap for awhile.

Here we go again! Did you notice the big snowflakes still falling?

Dad is home and doing well.

Dad slept in his bed for the first time since the accident. He said he is doing so much better with sleep. No more nightmares or cold sweats. They sent him home with oxygen. I don't know how long he will be on it. I guess they are worried about the change in altitude from St. George to Cedar City, kinda like decompression. He hasn't had much of an appetite, but he sure is craving peanut butter cups.

When it rains it pours...poor Jake!

Since Dad has had his accident my emotions are surfaced, it doesn't take much to send me into a bawling frenzy...this didn't need to happen. This month is all about deadlines. Taxes are due and my daycare license needs to be renewed. And that is a huge process. And to make things more difficult, my inspector is an ogre.

Last night Trever and I was on our way out to pick up our taxes. We had just got in Trev's car when Mike came up to window to chat for a minute. In that short amount of time, Jake our Cane Corso Mastiff Pup layed down right behind Trevers Tire. We didn't know. So we backed up right over the top of poor Jake. Not once, but twice. Trever's car was on a tilt so he thought we was on top of him and so did I. So he pulled forward going over him again. All this happened with Jed watching. We were traumatized!!!!!!!!!!!

We took him into the Vet and paid $300.00 for X-rays. Believe it or not...he's only got a skid mark on his side and a bruised lung. He's totally fine. Infact, I went into the garage this morning to check on him and he's his typical self, a maniac. Maybe it's the pain pills.

Update- Monday April 13th, 2009

The last couple nights have been pretty rough. Dad hasn't been sleeping. When he falls asleep he has horrible nightmares with cold sweats. Today they figured out what was wrong. He hasn't been taking his anxiety medication. Now with the medication in his system I hope he can get some rest, he's exhausted! He's a little down. I'm really worried this will slow down his progress. Hopefully, most of the depression is fatigue.
They pulled the Pace Maker cords out of his heart this afternoon. He has to stay in the hospital for (4) hours after that procedure. He is scheduled to be released at 3:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday with Jody, Ali, Christian and Morgan

We had a relaxing Easter Sunday. We didn't do a whole lot of anything. Nicole made breakfast while I prepared a Ham. Jody and the kids came over for dinner. The cousins spent alot of time out in the sun playing basketball. The Easter Bunny brought Mike his favorite candy, Cadberry Eggs.

Family and Friends....

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Update- Sunday April 12, 2009 Happy Easter Everyone.

I spoke to Dad this morning, he sounds GOOD! He's back to himself.
He walked 325 feet this morning. He said he was trying to race the other
patients. He is anxious to go home. They said he will be released tomorrow.
He will be the second person to be released this soon. They said he is
healing extremely fast. He still can not hear out of his left ear. He seems
to be in good spirits.

Update- Saturday Night

I spoke to Dad just before bed. I think it's all catching up with my parents. Dad and Mom have been sleeping most of the day. His back is starting to bother him. But he said his heart feels good. They were both ready for bed at 9:00. They have a roll away bed in the room for my mom.

UPDATE- Saturday 11th, 2009

We are home now. I spoke to Dad this morning, he is doing better than the doctors expected. His progress is a day ahead. His hearing is still gone. His heart sound good, it skips a beat now and again but that is to be expected. This is a picture of his incision. This picture was taken on Friday. Three days later look how much better it looks. I have a picture of it when right after the operation posted on "Our big scare."

Update- Friday April 10th.

They moved Dad From ICU to the second floor. His room number is 227. So if you would like to talk to him you can call the hospital. He is doing well. He has lost the hearing out of his left ear. The doctor said he thinks his hearing will come back. They think he may have a blood clot in the ear, it's not a clot that can get in the blood stream. The ICU waiting room was full of Family and Friends. Dad said he has only used 7 out of 9 lives. He may have to use the last 7 to get the family together more often.

#1 pic- (Jody's Daughter) Jed and Nicole (my kids)
#2 pic- Tony,Allison,Katrina (my older sister carol's girls)
#3 pic- Tony and Katrina
#4 pic- Jody (my sister) Mike (my husband) and my mom
#5 pic- Tony
#6 pic- Carol (my older sister)
#7 pic- Braiden (troy's son) Troy (my brother) Braxton (troy's son) Morgan (Jody's daughter)
#8 pic- Troy's Family
#9 Mom
#10 Craig (Dad's Brother) Morgan, and my sister Jody
#11 Uncle Craig and Morgan
#12 Malinda (craig's daughter) and my Grandmother, Doris

This smile is for Aunt Patty.

My Dad has a charming side. He is a really fun person to be around. My kids call him goofy gramps. He's been giving the nurses a hard time. They love it. They all walk out with a big smile on their face. He asked them if the hospital gives them happy pills. Dad doesn't realize he's the happy pill.

Update- Thursday April 9th.

One day into recovery. He is off the ventilator. They are giving him 50% oxygen. His saturation is 97. They have dad sitting up. This was extremely painful. Today's technology is absolutely amazing.