Sunday, May 16, 2010, Day 7

Today was a wonderful day.......It started out by me hanging out with Sam playing in Pitt Meadows while Scott and Brenn toured around the 2nd floor of the hospital. Brenn had visitors from Prince George who came baring gifts of comfort items for the whole family from Theta Nu sorority and my book club (thanks girls). It was shortly after this that Brenn began sneezing and coughing.......eeeekkkk......and so it began..... the isolation (as per protocol until test results are back to confirm or deny a virus (I'm thinking it's allergies)). Due to the isolation order Brenn had to miss her second set of visitors, auntie April, uncle Mike, and cousins Liam and Ella they will come back next weekend if all is well .

Okay so I'm sure your saying to yourself "hmmmm how could this be a wonderful day?" I will tell you, Brenn was happy, she smiled, she laughed, she played, she hung out with BOTH her parents for a couple of hours, she ate lots as she said she was starving and thankfully she finally SHOWERED!!!!!! Her 5 year old self had been convinced that she couldn't (wouldn't) bathe because she was hooked up to an IV and had the VAD, after some smooth coaxing from the Mama and some help from Glad Press N' Seal we prevailed and now we have a sweet smelling little girl again who by the way also has beautifully painted finger and toe nails that she did herself. Brenn is comfortably sleeping and hopefully continues throughout the night.

As a family we would like to say that we are truly blessed and thanking our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, our friends, family of friends, friends of friends, neighbors, Brenn's school community, the church community, and the Prince George community for all the love, support, and care packages that you have all shown and sent to us since our journey began. Know that you are all appreciated and loved by us and we are thankful that we have you in our lives.