Leap Day

Grammy was unexpectedly flown to Jefferson hospital on Monday night while Dan visited with her in the Lancaster hospital. The doctors at Jefferson did their own CT scan that night, and did the coil surgery yesterday morning. Clearly, this is the place where she should be with the best doctors and medical personnel. Uncle Nate has a friend that works there that is as nice as they come, and has offered to keep Dan posted with information on his mom for him. So far, the coil surgery went as well as could be expected and now they will wait to do the permanent brain tube at some point this week.

We are hoping and praying for the best. Girlies have been diligently praying to God every night, and they have really broken my heart with the sweet things that they say. They are good girls. I really hope for them that their Grammy somehow comes out of this all as the person they remember her to be.

We went to Lancaster this past weekend to walk Chloe. Maddie and Faith feel helpful when they can take Chloe out for a long walk around the lake. Chloe is Grammy's beloved dog, and the lake is Grammy's haven. It feels nice to walk that same path. And, Dan stays with Abrie to help with laundry and dishes with his dad. Their local restaurant had a benefit for them that day as well, and they raised over $7,000. I was blown away with the prizes that people that knew Dan's mom had pitched in for the raffle. It was very overwhelming to see how many people clearly love her and wish her well.

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We set out today for our trip to Disney. Girlfriends know there is a surprise for Leap Day, but they think we are going to Baltimore (Abrie thinks we are going to "Chocoley World!"). It's crazy how we haven't really thought about our trip at all in the past 2 weeks with everything that's been going on, even though this is what we'd been looking forward to for the past several months. There's excitement that's slowly finding its way back into both Dan and myself, and we really are most excited to see their faces again.

Just a few more hours until we're off to our happiest place in the world..