Wednesday, August 31, 2011

When it Rains it Pours!


This week has been rough for the McKinney family. Unfortunately my mom has had another bout of sickness and ended up back in the hospital at 3am on Monday. This has been a hard year for her with her sickness and the doctors are still confused as to what she actually has. Hopefully we will get some answers soon...she will be going through extensive testing this Friday and she got released from the hospital yesterday at 6. While in the hospital with my mom on Monday morning we got a call from my Aunt Gail (mom's sister), she had received a call from my grandmother that my grandfather (Poppy) was un-responsive (couldn't talk, couldn't move etc.). My Aunt high-tailed it over to Poppy's house and they called 911 immediately. Absolute CRAZINESS since my mom was also at St. Mary's Hospital and now my grandfather was also being admitted to the same hospital. After tests, it was determined that Poppy has pneumonia and congestive heart failure. I'm devastated about Poppy, I've been trying to spend as much time as I can with him these last couple of days. I would bounce from my mom's room on the 6th floor down to ICU to visit him. The doctors have told us the end is probably near so please be thinking about our family. I will update more when I hear more.

On another note Pierce had his appointment on Monday at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for his head scan. Obviously Monday was a super intense day for me so my husband and Nanny (Matt's mom) took Pierce to the hospital for his appointment. Luckily the head scan went well and at this time the doctors feel what ever we are doing at home is working and his head is slowly improving, so at this time we will not be getting a helmet...YAY! However, we will have a follow-up with the doctor in one month to just make sure the head is progressing in the correct direction.

Thanks for all your thoughts! XOXO!

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