March 13th

Hello All,

Thank you for your kind comments and words of support. I am reading each of them to Khloe.

She is doing better today and our hopes increase that we will be able to leave the hospital next week. She has done well with the slow backing off of "hosptial" medicinces, though the drs have had to slow way down on backing off the one crucial to helping her heart beat stronger as she keeps having PVC's or premature ventricular contractions. They started today with one of the "home" replacement medicines and the plan is to increase the dose each day as long as she tolerates it well. Her attitude and approach to life is right back to normal and asked today if she could take a walk! The dr told her she needed to be able to sit in a chair and then stand for a few minutes at least three times in one day before trying to walk; today she has managed two times so far and is determined to make the 3rd though after each time she has quickly fallen asleep and there is not much time left this evening. :-)
A bit of humor (because that is helping us all, being able to laugh)...the drs let her start eating food on Wednesday, though she continues to have bouts of nausea and vomitting. Apparently this does not bother her happiness at being able to eat small bits of food because yesterday morning as I came in from the mandatory parents absence from 7am to 8am she was lying in bed with the nurse holding the bucket by her head, obviously having just been sick, and she looked up at me with a big smile and announced she had just ordered an omlet for breakfast and could not wait for it to get to her room! The nurse and I had a good chuckle. We can learn alot from our children!