The Abby Road to Recovery - Past 48 Hours

This will be a quick, mostly information, kind of update on how we are all doing on the Abby Road to recovery :).

Abby continues to do well, although her progress seems so slow to us. I will let Kristyn give all the medical details when she gets a chance to blog. Which brings me to the next thing.

We've been rather "offline" in the past two days due to my unfortunate encounter with a 24 hour flu bug. This put us into a "wow do we ever need help now" mode and Grandad plus Debora plus Kim have helped to step in and cover off the bedside care until Gramma was back in the game. We're good to go now, but are sorry for the delay in updating.

The length of our hospital stay is certainly causing a degree of physical drain. Kristyn is also "fighting" a cold, and that plus carrying a baby, plus all the stress of the past two weeks...yeah, it's taking a toll.

However...here's what's amazing.

Kristyn remains calm and strong in the midst of everything. She's more than willing to take her breaks when offered, and is doing her best to eat well and drink lots. She is a stellar Mom even in the most challenging of situations.

The medical care we are receiving is top notch. We have so appreciated how calmly and professionally things have been explained to us. Our nurses are amazing, even to the point of asking Abby which colour of Dora shirt she'd like to see the next day. The answer was, of course, purple!

Progress is happening. It seems slow to us and we are tired of doing this, but we are headed in the right direction.

Abby's colour and disposition is good. She's naturally leery of new people who come to the bedside, not trusting what exactly will be done to her. But even at that, she is down to the routine and knows how to lift her arm for the temperature and offer her leg for the blood pressure cuff. She's got her own security thing going on, involving the exact placement of Black Kitty and Pink Kitty and Teddy and Monkey and whoever else is sharing the crib at the moment.

You have all been so wonderful. The cards and gifts and food and physical presence and e-mails....all of it is so very important. You are respecting the quiet we've asked for, and that is helping so much. You keep asking for ways to help, and honestly, mostly we have everything we need. But we are more than open to asking any of you for what else we might need as we go along.

God is here. He's so here. This little corner continues to be a very holy place. We feel so loved. We feel the healing happening. We're tired, but sustained as promised.

Please keep praying. We need you.

Ruth Anne