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Family History October 2008







 Oct. 5, 2008 (written by Paula)

Garrett got his cast off. (It was our year of the ambulance rides--7 times in 12 months, the last one being Garrett who got hit by a car and broke his arm.) Susanna had her last soccer game. She scored 3 goals in the season. We attended the Foothill Fall Festival. Garrett finished his bug collection of 35 bugs and 11 orders. Jan had 2 marching band performances this last week. Lincoln started attending Math Counts. He almost got into jazz band on piano but a 9th grader won. He's going to be doing "auxiliary". Everett did his Book project on Greek legends.



Our little Camille is in the hospital right now and we miss her. She had her G-tube surgery on Wednesday. It went well and she seemed to be recovering quickly but on Thursday night her breathing became very labored and she ended up back in the PICU on a ventilator. She is still on it and slowly improving. We're not sure exactly why she's having problems breathing. I believe that this has been building up for a long time and she ran out of reserves after the surgery. We hope she can come home soon. We went up to see her this morning and Bishop Garlick gave her a blessing. He blessed her that she would heal and overcome all the difficulties she's had in her life, that she would be calm and rest and heal. One of Camille's problems is that she really hates the ventilator and is frequently agitated despite being heavily sedated. She shakes her head back and forth trying to get rid of it which causes her to desat and stop breathing. She has moved to lower settings than she started on but it's still not low enough to come off.


Oct. 19, 2008

Our Camille came home from the hospital last Sunday. She came off the vent on Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the evening. She's leaking out of her G-tube site so we have to change her dressing a lot. The skin around it gets sore from the stomach acid. She's lower on her oxygen at home at 5/16th a liter/min. She smiles more and we discovered that she got her 1st tooth last Sunday. She gets bored easily now and takes very short naps so we need to change that.

Jan had lots of marching band competitions and their band took first each time. Lincoln went to a Utah Valley Symphony concert with Grandma. We went to Southfork for a picnic and went to the library. The children are on fall break.

Scott did Physics Man and Quantum boy last Saturday. He gave lots of tours of his lab. We no longer have our kitchen but we got our new cabinets. We worked really hard yesterday cleaning up the yard and ho use. The house is slowly becoming more organized.

Jan took the PSAT this week and he conducted the Young Men's Chorus today.

Oct. 26, 2008

Our little Camille turned 1. She liked her frosting. Today was the Primary program. Mindy was not exemplary in her behavior but the other children did well. Scott was the narrator and did well too. Jan returned home triumphantly from his band tour with 2 more 1st place trophies. Susanna is gearing up for her birthday and baptism. Everett got fitted for glasses so we got a Costco membership. Our little bigtooth maples are looking very lovely this year.






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