Baby Anthony is OK! He has a long way to go and will spend at least a month in ICU on all kinds of medications to keep him from rejecting the organs, etc., but he is through the surgery and in the best care possible with a new liver and new intestines. Medical science is truly amazing. All the older boys are at school and will be going home to ( Read more... )

I think I may have mentioned this family when discussing perspective--there is a single Mom who shares one bedroom of a two bedroom apartment (the other room occupied by a roommate) with her four sons--twin 6 year olds, a 7 year old, and her 10 month old baby who is waiting for an intestinal and liver transplant at UCLA. She just called me to ask ( Read more... )

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I'm here, post op and fabulous. Well, good anyway.

100% successful, as far as they can tell. A couple of months before we know for sure. I still have my uterus.

Tired and a bit sore right now, so that's all I'm going to write, but i wanted you to know that I'm ok.

Thanks for your positive thoughts and all.
Love,
Kimberly

I've been helpful. I've helped a friend paint his new place, and it looks great. I've helped babysit kids--the baby in their family has major medical problems involving the UCLA transplant team, and the older kids can't really go to that. I've tried to help Aidan (light a candle for him--he's really having trouble keeping it together and he has ( Read more... )

Do you realize that people eat french toast and pancakes and other comparable pastries for breakfast every day? Yet other pastries are called desserts. I made a baked variety of french toast, so I saved on the butter I would have used in the pan, and I even served it without the syrup, which is all sugar anyway. Surely, that would fall into the ( Read more... )