Hallie's ONH & SOD Blog

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October 14th, 2009

This might be my only blog that I get to write completely by myself, so I am going to try and make it a goodie!

First for the Hallie update:

Hallie had her third stem cell treatment today! The whole process went as smoothly as possible, so thank you for all of your prayers for Hallie. She got poked (only once), had the treatment in our room, and had the IV removed all within one hour! As many of you know, kids can be freakishly strong if they need to be. Therefore, I literally have to lay on Hallie when she gets poked, but she always calms down and snuggles with her da-da. I absolutely love this time with her, because she just melts in my arms.

We think Hallie is more self motivated to use her vision, but it is difficult to know for sure if there have been improvements or not. Obviously, we are still very early in the process as she could continue to have improvements up to a year after these treatments. We are always on the lookout for improvements and we definitely keep everybody updated.

And now for the family update:

Carter is… you know what there are no adjectives to explain this little boy. So I will explain him in statements and you can come up with the adjectives. He has a cough and liquid poop coming out of his butt and this kid does not want to sleep. He would rather climb over his mom and dad, get into everything, and play all day. There is no stopping that kid. Carter is going to have find something like running across the Untied States to get rid of his energy. Hopefully once he gets good at running, I can start my sports drills with him. My wife will hate that I am training another sports freak, but at least it will be another avenue to get his energy out.

Katie is getting better, but she is still feeling a little weak. She gets very little sleep, see above, so she doesn’t get the opportunity to get well fast. I am constantly amazed by the woman my wife is. She is a wonderful mother and I am eternally grateful for that. Our kids health and development are products of her hard work. She cares so much, she feels she doesn’t give enough to them. I have told many people that God made Katie to be a mom. It is cliche, but Katie’s picture should be next to mom in the dictionary.  Kaite has filled her free time by caring about every soul here and as you know that is not out of the norm for her. I still to this day cannot fathom how she continues to take on so many stories and never get burned out. I get burned out after talking about emotional stuff for 30 minutes, but I am “mental man” as I have deemed myself.  God really knew what he was doing bringing us two together. (that paragraph should buy me some brownie points, wink, wink!)

I am starting to go through no working out and no basketball withdrawals. Actually, I am fine with it, because I know there are more important things to be doing now. I also am enjoying all the time I am getting with my beautiful wife and constantly growing up kids. I know they are both still young, but now that both of them are walking well, it really has hit me on how fast it goes. My school work has taken up most of my free time these days as I am in grad school trying to get my MBA.

Thanks again to everybody for your continued prayers, support, and encouragement. All of you make it a lot easier to be here!

God Bless, Adam

Sorry that this is such a long blog, but I had to take advantage of my opportunity.

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