Oh! The Changes We Do Have

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As I have been mentioning in several of our posts our sweet Dr. M was in the process of adopting a little baby. Well, the Lord has truly blessed Dr. M in the entire process. It has been a very quick and amazing thing!

Last Friday we were notified that Dr.M had a little girl, Ruth Gracelyn, in her arms! We were extatic! Yesterday, Samantha Grace and I had the wonderful pleasure of "hanging out" with Ruthie Grace and Mommy. She is a doll! (Pictures to come.) She has so much brown hair and she looks a lot like her grandaddy (I think). I even got the prize award for getting her to burp not once but twice while I was there. (According to her Mommy this is quite an honor because she is not a good burper.)

Along with new friends, we made our first return post-hospital trip to Birmingham today. After surviving Birmingham construction traffic, we safely arrived to our appointment. Samantha Grace was SO relieved to be "rescued" from her car seat.

In triage we found out that we now weigh...wait for it...wait for it...19 pounds! We were very relieved to find out that Dr. L had not ordered any labs for today! Praise the Lord! We had a wonderful conversation with Dr. A (the follow-up doctor) and came up with some new strategies to combat some of her finicky eating habits.

We have now changed to a new short acting insulin that has to be filled at either Children's Hospital or at a Baptist Hospital here in Montgomery. (Can you hear the excitement in my voice?!) We have to continue to check her in the middle of the night because instead of getting 1 full strength amount of insulin at each meal she is getting 1/10th strength. Pretty crazy sounding to Josh and I, but we will see what happens.

We also talked to the insulin pump director. They are really proactive about getting her on a pump by this fall! We were shocked! They strongly believe that this will aid in a big way at bringing some stablization to her numbers. They did tell us that even if we are out of the honeymoon phase that her numbers will continue to roller coaster because of her age. So Josh and I will return in one month to Birmingham for some pre-pump classes to make our decision final.

Today has been a long day, but we are very pleased with everything! Thank you to everyone for your prayers for this day!