Genevieve Ross - Stephanie's Mom

Stephanie's mom, Genevieve Ross, has been hospitalized. I have set up a separate blog for those of you interested in following her status. She has been struggling lately with her M.S. and has run into some complications that required her to be admitted. She really is not in good shape.

I am asking everyone who is reading this to please stop what you are doing right now and say a prayer of healing for Stephanie's mom, my mother-in-law, and Levi's "Lollie".

Thank you in advance for the blessings!

12/22/2009 Update

Stephanie saw the doctor yesterday and he removed the last two drains she had in. That is great news. If you have never seen them or heard someone talk about the drains, you can't imagine. Good riddance!

The doctor doesn't want to see Steph for another three (3) weeks so things are going as he had hoped. I will update as things progress.

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Not only do I provide updates but I post pictures of Levi all the time!

12:30pm 12/15 Update

Sorry for not updating in a while! Stephanie had her first follow up appointment with her doctor this morning. He said everything was looking good. She needs to leave her two drains in for one more week and then she will at least be free from foreign things being attached to her body and only one thing foreign in her body, the port.

Stephanie has been doing extremely well, walking every day and even getting out of the house a little to attend church and of course, you guess it, shopping! We felt strongly about adopting a child for Christmas and weren't sure if we could make it happen with everything going on. While at church on Sunday, they had some children and families left on the adoption list so we went ahead and got the list for a 5 year old girl. Stephanie is thinking the shopping is fun but I am struggling with the chore of finding the gifts.

Anyhow, things are going well. Levi is in Houston with Stephanie's aunt this week and our wonderful neighbor Connie has meals lined up for us through this weekend. That has been a huge help!

It does appear Stephanie will need to go through another surgery to "clean up" some things but there was no rush expressed by the doctor today. Until then, we will just enjoy the Christmas season and continue to heal!

Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers!