Category Archives: Health

Walking for a cause.

As many of you know, my daughter was born with a complex heart defect and had open heart surgery at 5 1/2 months old.  She is now 15 months and doing fantastic but her journey is not over.  She is scheduled to have another surgery when she is 3 and could have any number of …

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Brody Bivens: prayers, healing and hope.

I went away but we will come back to that. I am part of a wonderful group of mothers whose children were all born around the same time as Butterfly.  One of the mothers has a little boy named Brody Bivens, who is only 19 days older than Butterfly and has mitochondrial disease.  I’m not …

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Random Hospital Thoughts

Butterfly had her surgery and it went amazingly well.  She is also recovering super fast and expecting discharge faster than we were told to expect.  So thankful to everyone who prayed, sent healing energy and lit candles! She is sleeping now and I am in the hospital with her being bored on the internet.  I …

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Butterfly

In just 2 days we leave for Aurora.  On June 6th, my 5 month old daughter will have a complete physical, a chest x-ray, a sedated echo cardiogram and blood work.  Assuming she is the amazing, healthy little miracle I know she is she will then be having open heart surgery on June 7th.  As …

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