Bradley has enjoyed his weekend visits. Sometimes he draws Elli pictures to hang on her bed, other times he will reach in to touch her while he talks to her softly, or he will read to her. Go Dog Go was Elli's first bed time story. Well, the first 5 pages or so anyway, after that Bradley was ready to do something else.
She really enjoys listening to her big brother. If she is awake she will look in his direction with the sweetest contented look on her face. If she is asleep while he talks you can watch her stats stay level or sometimes they even get better. She knows who he is, and is happy when he's around. 
Elli was transported by ambulance to McKay Dee hospital in Ogden where she had her PDA repaired. (her heart murmur) She was 2 weeks old and only weighed around 1 and 1/2 pounds. We were really nervous about the whole thing, but in the end it wasn't as scary as we thought. She did marvelous. She now has a very healthy heart with a little tiny piece of titanium hardware that shows up on her x-rays. These 2 pictures show the life flight team placing Elli in the portable incubator. It took about 45 minutes to get her into the bed and stabilized so they could go down to the ambulance. It is very nerve racking to watch your baby drive away, but we couldn't have asked for better people to care for her both in the ambulance and at McKay Dee. We were very glad to get to our NICU though. It is our second home right now, and we really enjoy the staff there.
We will have some up to date pictures soon, please come back again.
2 comments:
The pictures are amazing, to realize how much she has been through. It's nice that she responds to Bradley so well.
What a sweet bond Elli and Bradley share! I have a hunch that Go Dogs, Go! will be a favorite of Elli's for a long time. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you about the birthday card idea. I did think about it a lot, and never thought of anything clever. I'm sure you thought of something great! We need to get together again soon.
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