Lance got home from the hospital tonight and looks great. He had a stomach bug and his CRP was elevated-it should be under 1 and was 14.

The stomach bug got every one in the house except for Doug. We hope and pray he stays clear from it. Trust me it is TERRIBLE. Poor little Emory doesn't get sick that often and then when he does I was too sick to take care of him. He is such a sweetie though..He couldn't make it to the bathroom a couple of times and the sweet little boy gets a towel and starts trying to clean up after himself. I told him not to worry about it, that I would get it when I could and he said "no-I got it". He is such a great little boy, and has been such a good sport about all that has been going on around him. He is so special.

Lance had a really bad night last night. He was sick the entire night. I will not get graphic with details,but our house will never be the same. Doug took him to the local hospital and he is severly dehydrated and has a fever of 103.4. They are transferring him by ambulance to Children's Health Care of Atlanta. He will be in room 2142.

At this point we don't know what is going on with him. I just pray that little man gets better soon-We hate seeing him like this.

I am asking for prayers for all of us..I am on the verge on having a nervous breakdown. I try so hard to stay strong and think positively. Really we have no other choice but keep keeping on. We are stressed out!! This journey can be rough at times. There are so many things to juggle and I pray that things get better. I am just having a down moment-there has been so much going on lately.

Thanks for caring!!

Lance went back to the hospital on the 25th for a follow-up for the episode of pnuemonia. They did an X-Ray and said he looked good! He then had to be back Monday morning for his cath we had to reschedule due to his illness. His biopsy came back a grade "0" which means no rejection. We had to adjust his meds slightly because when he was sick he was holding on to his anti-rejection medicine, but know that he is well he was getting it out as he is suppose to.

Lance got to come home from the hospital  the 15th. So he spent four days which felt like 20. I think Lance and I were having flash backs from the summer and were afraid it was going to keep dragging on. He came home on antibotics for 8 days. He has a follow up appt tomorrow at the hospital. He seems a lot better so hopefully they will agree. Then they will schedule his cath.

Lance then has surgery on Tuesday to get his third set of tubes put in his ears. Hopefully this will help him hear, we hear a lot of "What" from Lance at this point. He has been a little bit sleepier lately, but I am sure it is his body trying to get better. Other than that... things are going well.

I will update with the doctors thoughts tomorrow.

Lance came back to hospital on Friday due to him having a fever of 102.6 and they did an X-ray and some blood work and decided he needed to be admitted. They wanted to start him on IV antibotics. They have taken some samples of stuff from his throat and nose and expect the panels to be back in a couple of days. They said he has symptoms of pneumonia and part of his lungs are deflated. They said it sounds worse than it is.

Lance and Emory are both doing great and our life really seems to be getting back to normal. Lance's next cath is scheduled for Feb 16th and at this point he is going every two months. We did take him to the ER last weekend because he had a low grade fever and has had a cough for a little while now. So to be on the safe side we took him to the local ER to have a chest X-Ray to rule out anything really serious. Thankfully it was clear and we were on our Merry way. Of course this was New Years Day so the hospital was a full house. We did good getting out in 2 hours because they were so full they had people in the hallways on beds.

On a sad note, Grandma Judy is leaving us to go back to McDonough, she has been with us since the summer. She stayed with us to help out with the kids and make sure we weren't overwhelmed. I guess it is a good sign that things have calmed down enough for her to go home, but we will really miss her.

Lance had his cath this morning. He had to be there at 6:30 am and they took him back at ten minutes to 9:00am. When they brought him back after the cath they said he did great and his numbers looked really good. Dr. Kim said he got at little agitated when they were putting the needle in his leg. So they had to give him morphine to calm him down. Then Mr. Lance got a little to relaxed and his breathing got real shallow. They just kept making him talk about what Santa was bringing him and as long as he wasn't drifting off to sleep he was fine. They said he was quite entertaining back there. He is of course really sleepy now and he will probably stay that way for most of the day.

Lance had his cath and EEG yesterday and the plan for the EEG was for us to keep him up as late as possible so that he would sleep during it. Lance was so tired and ready for bed at 9:00 p.m. and none of us really had the energy to keep him up for any type of party. I was also concerned with how I would drive him to his appt at 5:00am if we stayed up all night. I need my sleep!!! So we went to bed at 9:00p.m. and we got up at 3:00am to catch him up on some missed ICarly episodes. That seemed to do the trick.

This is the speech I tried to post on the previous log entry.