Tulips and Rembrandts

Day 54 (Dec 07) Update: Hello again, As you'll see from the set of photos we've sent tonight, the common theme is "Elizabeth s...

Keeping it brief tonight- The Good News: 1. Elizabeth got her last doses of vancomycin and rifampin! She's currently not requiring a...

Now that we're all caught up.... Elizabeth was more awake today that ever before. It seems like she spent 2/3 of the day awake, conten...

Dear Friends and Family, Apologies for the delay in sending out the Sunday, Day 51 (Dec 4) update. Hopefully, no one was worried that a hu...

Hello again. It's hard to believe that we've been at this for 50 days. We're really grateful that each of you have chosen to w...

Dear Friends and Family, Tonight we'll spare you the diet details in favor of delivering an email of unadulterated good news! Elizabet...

Thanks to my new residency rotation, I have thankfully returned to being at my daughter's bedside during the days! And already the rewa...

Today we were visited by the Occupational Therapist who gave me some tools to help Elizabeth relearn to suck and swallow and eventually eat....

Today, Elizabeth had several tests to determine if there's anything we can do to speed up how her stomach processes food. Once the resu...

Highlights from Elizabeth's day... *at 7:00am, I ran up to the hospital before work to say "good morning" to Elizabeth. I l...

Dear Friends and Family, After a night of restless sleep, Sara and I spent the day at the hospital with Elizabeth. Things were pretty muc...

Elizabeth is six weeks old today! These last 42 days have lasted forever and flown by in an instant at the same time. We would have given ...

Today Elizabeth and I spent Thanksgiving together in her room. The hospital provided a nice turkey dinner for the pediatric patients and the...

Today marks forty days and forty nights that Elizabeth has been in the World and in the Hospital. We are praying that this marks the end of...

As the pictures show, I was able to hold Elizabeth for quite awhile today for the first time in a week. It took her a few minutes to get us...

Have you ever watched some people bowling? After they release their ball, they put their bodies through all sorts of contortions, somehow h...

Elizabeth continued to make progress today. She was able to start and tolerate feedings through her G-tube. She's getting 1 tsp per ho...

If you're anything like Sara and me, you probably opened the photo attachment first AND are now reading the email. So you already know ...

Dear Friends and Family, We hope that yesterday's email silence didn't cause you any additional anxiety. Sara has been battling a...

In yesterday's update, I said that the surgeons suggested that we would have to "wait and see" the results of yesterday's ...