Because We Love Her

Wednesday, Aug 6th:

August 7th, 2008 Posted in Daily News Post

Happy and looking Great! That’s our Chloe in her most recent posture.

Last night we went to a neighborhood potluck and had a ball. It’s hard to express the feeling I got from seeing Chloe re-meeting all her little friends. It was old home week for her, and these kids just love to be uninhibited with their questions, and Chloe with her answers. She had not seen any of them since before the surgery.

Chloe was the star with the scar, the really cool scar. She said, “I’m officially Harry Potter now” upon showing some of her schoolmates the back of her head. The accent also belongs to her. It’s quite fun you know…

This was the perfect picture of a vibrant nine year old. She was running and playing, swinging the swings, teetering the teeter-totter and sliding the slide. The grub wasn’t bad either and she had her share. We spent a couple hours there, at least, and then went home with her twirling her NG tube line the whole way. Life IS good!

This morning she chose to sleep in. Wonder why? But once she was up, at 10:15 am, she was up. She came outside to water the plants… and me, as I worked on thinning the cherry tree. Of course, “oh, did I get you?” was her line of choice when she ‘accidentally’ hosed me.

After the changing of the guard, Dana coming home and me going to teach lessons, Chloe, Colin and Dana went to the reptile show. Apparently this was a monstrous hit. Chloe told me earlier that the last time she was there she held the tail of the python and, “I fell in love with it.” The tail I asked. “Yea.” Well, today she got to hold the head so I’m sure the love was much better.

The presenter took a special liking to her and spent extra time after the show going over a variety of things that interested Chloe. He told her that anytime she sees him again he expects her to come up and say hi. There’s no wondering why she gets this attention.

Here is the amazing part of this adventure. While at the show they ran into Dr. Smita Tomkoria, Chloe’s primary doctor, and her young kids. It turns out she lives very close to the house. Seeing she had young kids answered a lot of things for Dana. She could see why Smita was so emotional when telling Dana the terrible news on June 12th. I’m sure it was very uplifting for Smita to see how well Chloe is now doing. She even answered a medical question Dana had for her. Halving the meds is a good idea.

So that was a two-day quickie blog. There isn’t a lot to mention medically about Chloe at this point in time. I know so many of you are asking to be updated daily because you really care. That’s wonderful and I will keep this going as often as possible. There will be days that we won’t get on the blog for one reason or the other. My thought about a missed day should be for you to consider the age-old saying, “no news is good news.”

That’s the only news we are accepting thank you very much. And, thank you very much for all your love, support, prayers, and caring. We fully appreciate you.

Blessings,

Ron

  1. 155 Responses to “Wednesday, Aug 6th:”

  2. By mama on Aug 7, 2008

    Just to add additional info, several years ago we saw “Steve”, This same reptile man bring and educate his repiles at a National Night out event . He brought his then baby ‘daisy’ a crocodile who was less than a foot long. We got to pet daisy yesterday and she is a huge baby now. Chloe has no fear, just the uptmost respect.

    I noticed she was perterbed when a boy cut into the line 2x to hold the burmese python…as SHE was holding its head first and had waited. She did notice that the kids were staring at her nosetube and that distracted her. Alot.

    Thanks for writing, Ron. I know youre day was even more hectic than ours. Love you, me

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