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It has been 1,336 days since Gracie was admitted to the hospital, 1923840 minutes since Gracie was admitted, four birthdays, three...

In honor of Heart Month and Wear Red Day for our heart warriors, I wanted to get a blog out!! It has been a while since I wrote about our...

Quick update: After taking some much-needed time off I am ready to get back to blogs every two weeks. They will be posted every...

On January 13th our sweet Gracie was discharged from the hospital. When you are in and out of the hospital for as long as we were, you...

Short and sweet today! Gracie was making leaps and bounds, she was smiling every day, giggling, and all around my happy girl. She still...

Gracie was slowly coming out of the delusional state she was in, had all of her chest tubes still in place BUT at least I could hold my...

Staying the night with Grace was... VERY stressful. I knew the beeps and alarms like the back of my hand by now. I knew if things were...

We arrived at the hospital bright and early so Gracie could be admitted to pre-op and we could get a few extra snuggles before they took...

I took Gracie in for our normal follow-up with cardiology. This meant another echo to check on her heart pressures and a lung profusion...

If you are not caught up on my blog at this time, GO BACK NOW! Nothing is going to make sense moving forward as I talk more about the...

We planned a day for my two brothers, nieces, and my sister-in-law to meet Gracie. They had previously met Paisley very briefly. We met...

Come October Gracie was still home, happy and working on building up her feeds. She was currently at 65mL/ feed 4x a day. It was still...

We were home, happy and settling into our new norm for what could be a few days or a few months but either way, we were going to enjoy...

We were re-admitted on a Sunday and were hoping that it was simply a fluid in her lungs, a few extra doses of Lasix (diuretic) and we'd...

I was rushing Gracie to the ER. I continued to look back in the rearview to her baby mirror to make sure that she was still breathing. My...

To say we did not think this day would ever get there n then here we were a family of 4 and our 3 pups. The pups were very interested in...

At 17 weeks, Emmy was diagnosed with Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus. In the simplest of terms, her heart is on the right side of her...

We received the worst news we absolutely could to this point. We had been through open-heart surgery, sepsis, and countless more things...

Gracie was weening all of her meds, off oxygen, and overall doing amazing. But something was still off and we were about to find out exactly

Come August each day Gracie’s swelling was starting to improve more and more now that she was no longer trying to fight her horrible...