This makes me chuckle... I love it!

Eli and I just got home from another trip to Mesa. He is now giving himself injections three times a week. They are Epogen injections that stimulate red blood cell growth. His red blood cell count went down, if this does not help then he will have to have blood transfusions every month.
He is also having problems with his catheter site. His nurse had to chemically burn around the tube to prevent infection. We will have to go down again in a few weeks to have finish the procedure.
All in all he is doing well :)
Thanks to all of you that helped with Becca and Grayson while we were gone! I don't know what I would do without such amazing friends to count on!

All is well...

We had a scare this week with Eli. His blood pressure spiked to over 190 and he had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance once again, he had some tiny seizures but they were controllable. They changed his medication once again, he seems to be leveling out. The only thing that frightens me was something the nurse said as we were leaving. She said that when it gets over 180 he is very likely to have a stroke! When he was over 200 and had four grand mal seizures they were baffled that he didn't have multiple strokes... I feel the prayers of each and everyone of you. We are so blessed during this trying time.

Becca and Grayson started Little League! Grayson won his first game last night :) Yay! They are pretty good little players, that must be the "Bargo" in them because their Mom is not an athlete at all... although I was pretty good at badminton :)

Becca had her music program today, she sang and danced away... she did a great job. Although my camera ran out of batteries, I did get a couple on my phone. I will try to get them on here this weekend :) One of her best little girlfriends moved to South Dakota today. She is heartbroken. I told her that she will always have a special place in her heart for her :) (I don't think that helped much) I remember moving from Bullhead and being so broken hearted. What would I have done if my parents didn't make that move? All of the amazing friendships I would have missed out on :)

I love you guys!

Words to live by...

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect;just be an excellent example of being human."
- Anthony Robbins

Eli update... Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

Hey everybody!
I wanted to give you all an update on Eli :) We just got back from the Valley... Eli had a couple of doctors appointments.
Let me first tell you that he had a bad week last week. It culminated on Friday, he had a terrible blood pressure headache. We checked his blood pressure and it was very high.(161/128) He was in bed all day. Saturday came and he said he felt better, he was still pretty shaky and weak. He finally got into the shower so that we could go out to eat. I heard the shower go off and a minute later I heard him yelling "Mom"... I answered "Do you need a towel"... I heard a louder "MOM" again. I said "I am getting one!" BOOM! I heard the worst crashing noise. I ran to the bathroom and tried to shove the door open. I couldn't. Gregg heard me yelling for Eli, he ran in and got the door open. I could see his legs shaking. I was so scared that he was having another seizure.
He slowly came to... He had fainted. Whew!
His blood pressure has plummeted since then...
At his doctors appt. yesterday it was 106/70.
His doctor has taken him off of one of his high blood pressure prescriptions... He needs to get stabilized.
He has not had an appetite. I try and shove food in front of him and he just doesn't want to eat. He took Grayson to lunch today and did eat some dinner, hopefully he is getting his appetite back :)
Rebecca wanted me to let you all know that she is a Grandma! Her kitty had her babies on Sunday! We haven't found them though :( We have this big field behind our house that we think she has them stashed... She is such a sweet kitty, we hope we can find her babies soon. :) We will look again tomorrow!

Grayson Spring School Picture 2009

Becca Spring School Picture 2009

Becca is ready to go... what is taking so long?