Both of my kiddo’s have big Dr. appointment’s coming up. Wednesday is Piper’s big MRSA throat culture. FINGERS. TOES. EYES. ARMS. LEGS. crossed for negative test results! This lung damage needs to slow the heck down! So, throw those prayers up to the sky and ask God to make it happen (if it’s his will, of course). Have you seen that commercial where the guy with the heart problem has the hospital bed following him around everywhere? LOL I kinda feel that way with Piper’s MRSA. I feel like ole’ MRSA has been following me everywhere I go. I’d like to kick ole’ MRSA in the chins. I mean seriously, he needs to beat it and give Piper a break. Me a break. Our entire family a little MRSA vacation. We realize that this is a VERY tall order. MRSA is difficult to eradicate, but it’s not impossible! Right? With God EVERYTHING is possible. It is.

Next Wednesday, Finley has Cardiac Clinic. We will be doing an Echo, EKG and some blood work to determine what this heart medication (Amiodarone) has been doing to her liver, kidneys and everything attached. That is some pretty heavy duty stuff and the long term effects are not great, so we need to be sure that she isn’t having any adverse signs from it. She’s been on it for 10 months. They are hoping to take her off of it at a year. I’m a little paranoid about that, but definitely glad she won’t have liver, kidney, etc. complications from it. It’s a double-edged sword for sure. It’s been keeping her heart-rate under control for 10 months. Under control. If they take her off of it, her little heart is free to flutter about and do something stupid again. I’m kinda not a fan of that. I am, however, a HUGE fan of God’s perfect plan. While I know the heart medication has been keeping her heart under control, I am MORE aware that God’s healing hands have been keeping it MORE under control. We will see where Fin’s heart function is right now. It’s still a big waiting game, waiting for her to reach 50 lbs. so that we can move forward with her ablation. That sure seems like a long way to go, seeing as she’s only about 21 lbs. right now. We’ll get there though! I know I’ll blink and she’ll be 5.

So, the next 2 weeks will be filled with some pretty heavy hitting news for both of our girls. I’m ready. I’m ready to gain some new perspective on both medical conditions and do what needs to be done to make things the best they can be for each! I love that they are both such strong little ladies. It makes it all okay. We are all in this together and I am SO grateful for your continued love, thoughts and prayers!!!!

Just a few pics of my little bugs