My beloved maternal grandmother just suffered a massive stroke. She and grandpa were resting together on the couch in their home after a cup of tea, and when he awoke and discovered he could not rouse her. Within hours, my paternal grandmother was also hospitalized with a bad infection in her leg.
This was a hard day. I was supposed to go
see them for three weeks last summer during June, and instead Audrey was
hospitalized for the entire month of June with a life threatening tear
in her esophagus, and there has been of course no chance since then
because we had to treat the scar tissue so quickly with the surgery to
save her from closing off entirely, and a continuous battle ever since.
I feel so frustrated. Thank goodness that they know I love them. I
just wish I could SEE them and talk to them and make myself useful in the situation.
So, in a moment of mild madness I wrote this on my facebook page:
What do you do when you are frustratingly
stuck on one edge of the continent, where your medically fragile baby
has been coughing all day with a bug (yet being an extra cute handful,
dragging you all over the house), while both of your cherished
grandmothers have been hospitalized in the past day on the opposite edge
of the continent, and your husband and other four children are still
nine states away? I'll tell you what you do. You christen the clean
kitchen by baking Soft & Chewy
Ginger Snap Cookies. And you consider the really important questions
such as, is it better to use butter or shortening, and should I use
Grandma's or Brer Rabbit Full Flavor Molasses. And you realize you
probably went a liiiiittle overkill buying both kinds, considering the
recipe takes 1/4 cup. And you let the baby empty all the cupboards in
the kitchen, and you consume clumps of raw cookie dough and say to
yourself "I'm gonna lose weight this year!" because hey, that's how we
roll.
http://baking.food.com/recipe/gingersnaps-soft-chewy-234707
There are few things that a Michael Jackson dance party with your one year old can't fix. Add cookie dough, and you're sure to beat it. Just beat it.
5-year-old Audrey was born with her lungs connected to her stomach and an incomplete esophagus (Long Gap EA/TEF or Esophageal Atresia). After two big surgeries and 142 days in the NICU in Utah, Audrey finally moved home but has since needed much more surgery, now in Boston. Much of her food still comes through a tube directly into her stomach, and she has had many procedures to help her swallow food, but she is thriving today. Thank you for blessing us with your love and prayers.
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