The Big Ol Update or my first Ambulance ride!

For those of you out of the know which is pry everyone but my husband here is where the Brown family is today!

On June 17th Anthony's Step-Father Paul went into the hospital short of breath. He was brought by ambulance to mercy in Des Moines and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in his lungs, bones and Lymphatic system. He spent some time there in the oncology ward, moved to the cardiac floor for 3 days for heart trouble, back to oncology, had his first does of Chemo on June 30th. the 1st of July he was moved to ICU for monitoring, late that night he began to have trouble breathing... He was sedated and placed on a ventilator where he spent the next 9 days in a comatose state. On Tuesday July 10th we removed the ventilator and had a changed man in front of us, he was talking and more alert. He had a rough night that night and then a better day was foloowing eaxch day. We spent 3 more days in ICU and then Paul was moved to a Hospice center in West Des Moines. After 4 days there he was moved to Hospice in the Chariton Hospital. I rode with him in the ambulance and we got him settled and I felt like aside from some major weight loss as we left there he looked better than he had at any point in the last month. We all know that his cancer is Terminal and his time left with us is short, so we are taking advantage of every moment we can. It is hard to imagine that 1 year ago this man was tearing apart my house and dangling from the scaffolding during our re-siding project.

Cassie Turned two on June 19th, we had a family party the 16th and then another family celebration in the hospital on her actual birthday. She is doing quite well with the changes to her life and schedule and is as spunky as ever.. I'll post some new pics when I get home.

My two old blogs... Note the dates :-)

Here is a picture of Cassie from back in that time frame just to catch you up!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The Never Ending Sickness!
Cassie is now on day 3 of diarrhea and had a horrid diaper rash, after two bout of the stomach flu days apart I was sure we would be on good ground for a bit minus some teething...Guess My daughter goes in waves... NICU for a week scaring us crazy... home and healthy as a horse for about a year and now the never ending and constantly changing stomach bug.. I already took tomorrow off of work, so I'll be home with her, the grandma and GG came the last 2 days and took care of her, thank god for them, aside from pooing on the carpet and some ink pen on my new couch My daughter was loved when I couldn't be here and that is all that matters.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Adventures in Motherhood
Well I had my first big introduction to the funner times of motherhood on Sunday night, We went to Anthony's parents for a bbq and were driving home ... 15 minutes after we left.. Cassie puked in the car.. She is still in the rear facing seat so I heard her kind of gag, looked back and WOW!!!!!! I think grandma overfed her a SMALL bit!We pulled over, Called grandma to bring wet towels, stripped her down, out her in the stroller and pulled out the carseat to begin the clean up.... 52 minutes later we were headed back home!I have never seen such a mess in all my life, I spent her whole nap yesterday cleaning out the car and trying to get the smell of Chicken noodle dinner out of the carseat!

And just to show you how big she has grown.. this years 4th of July fireworks!

Re-joining

I had started a blog ages ago.. obviously that went over well as two posts into it I forgot it and just remembered it. I'll post those in a bit. but since it seems I am able to keep up with friends lives on here I'll re-join and let you all know what is happening with us!