Baby Update

Yesterday was our appointment down at Primary Children's Hospital. We had to get up at 5:30AM to make to the hospital by 9:30. It was a long drive, but at least they were pretty fast about bringing us back to have the echo done. The tech scanned for about an hour, took a gazillion pictures, then went and got one of the residents. He then scanned for about 20 minutes took More pictures, then he went and got the Cardiologist that was on for the day. She scanned for about 15-20 minutes, took MORE pictures then told me get ready and they would talk to us in another room. They took us to a room that had a nice comfy couch in it to talk to us. I was surprised about how fast they were coming in, they were just basically waiting for us and followed us right in the room. They told us that they didn't see any indications of DORV, which is what the perinatologist though it was. That is wonderful news, because what they are seeing he has isn't nearly as bad as that. What they are seeing is the he has Dextrocardia, or that his heart is tilted to the right side instead of the left. That in itself won't cause any problems, it's just not the way a "normal" heart sits. They also said that he has a third vein that is coming into the right side of his heart (normal is two) from the umbilical cord, and because of that the right side of his heart isn't pumping as well as the left side and there is a little fluid built up around his heart, and his tricuspid valve doesn't close as well as it should. But there is a chance that the extra vein could just correct itself, and if it does that the fluid and the sluggish pumping would just correct itself also. Which means he may not even have to have surgery, and we might be able to have him here. We have to go back down to PCMC in four weeks, and they will check him all out again and hopefully be able to tell us where we can have him at. All in all it was much better news then we were expecting, and thank you to all who fasted and had him and us in our prayers. We really appreciated it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Birch Creek

Every year for Memorial Day Weekend my family goes up to Birch Creek camping. This year we got to go up on Thursday, instead of Friday. My parents had gone up on Wednesday to get a spot for everyone. When we got up there Thursday afternoon it was just my parents, us, and my parent's friends Ron and Marsha. We had just a quiet evening after getting everything set up. We ate dinner, visited, and played some games before going to bed. Friday at about 12:00ish my two brother's that were coming up and their families made it. It was such a nice day, the kids (and dogs) played in the creek most of the day, and I just enjoyed the sunshine, while Jason took a nap. Then on Saturday my aunt, uncle, cousin, and her kids came up for the day. We did some more of the same stuff, visiting in the warm sunshine, and Jason, Brandon, Angie, Megan, and Dave (my brother, his wife, daughter, and her husband) went to see if they could make it to Pass Lake. They had a fun ride even though Jason is the only one who actually made it the whole way to the lake. Sunday we drove to Niclolia, an old mining town. We explored a little and ate lunch up there. My brother Jaden had to ride, standing up in the back of our truck on the way up and down because he hurt his back. They actually ended up leaving Sunday afternoon after we got back. Sunday was pretty cloudy and windy all day so when we got back we spent a lot of time visiting in trailers. There was actually a wreck about a mile down from where we were camped. A car rolled over into the camp ground, and they were using the jaws of life to extract the person(s) and even brought in the life flight helicopter. Then Monday morning Jason got up early to go for one last ride before we left. He took the camera to take some pictures of the view. Then we just ate breakfast and packed up camp. When we got home we unpacked some, started laundry, SHOWERED, and then went to Jason's parents house for a BBQ. We ate way too much and visited and then came home to finish laundry and give the dogs a much needed bath. All in all it was a very fun weekend, and I am worn out but it is time that I should go so I can finish laundry, unpacking, and cleaning out Jason's very dirty truck!

Sweet Baby James

So even though I am pretty sure that almost everyone who looks at this already knows what's going on, I still promised an update after we went to the perinatologist. Last Wednesday we went to EIRMC for our appointment with the "high risk baby doctor" for another ultrasound because on our first one they "couldn't find every on the heart" that they needed to. Our appointment was at 3:00 and by 4:00 they finally came into the waiting room to get us. The tech started the ultrasound and after checking a few other things and taking some more measurements, she finally starts looking at the heart. She spends a good amount of time looking at his heart from different angles, not saying much. After about a half an hour she says that the doctor is going to come in now. So she goes and gets the doctor and the medical student he has with him. Then the doctor starts looking at his heart, and is pointing out to the student different things on the ultrasound. Then he finally starts talking to us, and explaining in "laman" terms what he is seeing. What he thinks it is, is called Double outlet right ventricle. It means that our baby's heart has both the aorta and pulmonary artery coming out of his right ventricle. (The pulmonary should be coming out of the right ventricle and the aorta should be coming off the left ventricle). He also has a VSD or a hole in between the two sides of his heart, which is actually a blessing in his case. But now we have to wait again until the 27th when we go down to Primary Children's Hospital to meet with the pediatric cardiologist to have an echo cardiogram done and see where we go from there, but we will have to deliver him down at PCH, so he can have his surgery done, and we get to see a lot of doctors this summer. But it is all for the good of our Sweet Baby James so we are just waiting to see what all we need to do. Until the next appointment.

Mother's Day!

So this is a little late but we have had sort of a stressful week so I think I'm allowed, but more on that later. The Saturday before mother's day we headed for Utah. We left at like 9:30, 10:00 in the morning because we had been looking at some used camping trailer's online that were for sell in Utah. We decided that the first one we would see in person was the one that was the furthest away, so on to Orem we went. We called the owner when we were an hour away to make sure that they were and would be home. They said they would and we got to their house at 2:30. We looked at the trailer and decided that we did like it in person as well and ended up buying it on the spot. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that the trailer is my Mother's Day present, don't I have the bestest husband ever! Thanks Jason! So after waiting for them to clean it out and having to buy a bigger ball for out hitch we were back on the road again by 3:30/4:00. Then it was a SLOW drive to Bear Lake where we were staying the night with Jason's family at the time share. We finally got there at about 7:00. For those of you who don't want to do the math that it almost NINE hours in a car. Pregnant. Needless to say I was pretty sore by the time we got there, and ended up taking a bath so that I could walk. But other than that we had lots of fun and enjoyed being with family. Sunday morning we got up and went down to the lake, then we went back to the time share and Jason and his dad played some tennis. We ended up leaving at about 12:30 and began the SLOW drive home. Our new/old trailer does handle pretty well but we can only go about 60mph, so on the interstate it feels really slow, especially when you no longer want to be in a car because you hurt and were in a car for about nine hours the day before. We got to our house about 4:30. Then my brother, sister-in-law, and their kids, and my parents came to our house so that we could give my mom her mother's day gift. We visited for a while then everyone left and we just hung out at our house for the rest of the evening. All in all I think it was a good mother's day weekend.


The inside of our trailer.





Here is "Little Blue". That's what Jason has named our trailer.


Jason and his Dad playing tennis at Bear Lake.

My GuArD DoG(s)?!

So yesterday at about a quarter to seven in the evening, I was home watching TV and stretching out on our living room floor. Shanyce was laying beside me and Oso was out back. Jason hasn't been getting home until 7:30 or 8:00 because he is just finishing up training a class right now. So anyways back to me at the house so I'm watching TV and all of the sudden I hear Oso bark and then like a flash he comes running through the dog door, almost taking it with him. Now Oso has at least two kinds of barks his friendly bark when he is playing or trying to get someone to play with him, and his scary stranger bark. Well he was doing his scary stranger bark and was acting really weird. He came in and stood between me and the back door and just kept barking, so I stand up and look out back, and finally I see Jason come around the corner of our house laughing! But Oso is still barking at him and does not stop, even when Jason is in full view, until I go and let him in the house. What had happened was Jason had gotten off of work early, but when he got home the wind had blown our gate open, so Jason was just closing it. But it took a while for Oso to realize that someone was in his yard and when he did it scared him and he didn't look to see who it was, he just came inside, away from whoever was there and to protect me. He scared me to death though in the process! We got a good laugh out of it, and it is nice to know that he was standing between me and the "stranger" and not hiding behind me like Shanyce! So I at least have one good guard dog, and one who is all bark! (Oso has been a little jumpy all day today though!)