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04/26/2011 09:34

Doing better

   Well we have been home for just over two weeks now.  Cadence has adjusted beautifully.  She was so excited to get back to school!  She continues to eat very well.  Same stuff as before, only better quantities and all meals are eaten to their fullest.  (and...

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04/09/2011 21:18

The big news

  Well we have heard the news that we have been waiting to hear since our journeys beginning.  We are going home! Friday, Cadence was relieved of her feeding tube.  (Praise the Lord!)  Luckily, timing has all worked out.  Jon came out to visit us on Thursday with the...

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04/04/2011 21:43

huh..there is a light at the end of that tunnel! Who knew?

  What a weekend!!  It started for me on Saturday night.  My dad called me at about 9:00 or so.  He told me the UPS man was at the RMD house to deliver my birthday present and he couldn’t get in.  I was up at the hospital getting Cadence ready to settle down, but I...

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04/01/2011 23:02

change is in the air

  Every time I post a new blog I tell myself that the next one will be done the next day.  Then something happens.... I forget!  Today is our 1 month anniversary of being in the hospital. So I apologize for the lengthy intermissions.  Cadence will be discharged from the hospital...

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03/29/2011 20:28

Realizing

Well today is the same, but different.  Cadence has been moved to a new room.  This one void of anything fun on the walls.  She can not do art, she can not interact in any of the hospitals games.  She can not watch any TV.  They are considering taking her books...

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03/27/2011 11:27

Stuborn little sucker

We have been here for over three weeks.  The staff is not losing hope just yet.  New standards are coming into play.  This morning Dr. Moshtael informed me that they will be moving Cadence's room so it is closer to the nurses station.  They will not have things up on the walls...

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03/23/2011 20:01

Sigh

Well here's your report.  Basically parent group night went well...  lots and lots of different types of eating disorders and lots of different ages and lots of parents!  wow. Cadence's doctors have decided she will not require the DTU (day treatment unit).  Slowly I am getting...

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03/21/2011 16:41

hmmmm

Not sure what to report.  Every day is different.  Today she did not eat breakfast but ate lunch, so I came up to the hospital.  After I was there for an hour or two it was time for her snack, so out I went waiting for the report.  I got sent home.  So I will wait till...

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03/19/2011 09:50

Harder than I thought

Well I am at the RMD House today.  Cadence ate about 10% of her breakfast so they have begun "behavior modification".  Basically saying she cant see me till she eats at least 85% of a meal.  It did not go over so well.  She had been warned starting yesterday, so she knew, but it...

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03/17/2011 15:15

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Well this morning we met with Dr. O'Toole.  She ok'd Cadence to eating by mouth in addition to the tube.  She informed me that she will allow Cadence to eat on her own today and then tomorrow tell her that if she does not complete a certain percentage of her food that she will be put on...

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02/14/2011 07:35

Dr Appointment scheduled

Cadence and I will be flying to Portland, OR on Thursday, February 17th and checking into the Ronald McDonald House.  In the morning we will meet Dr. O'Toole at the Kartini Clinic and learn what the next steps will be.

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