alyssa update!

We are still at CHOP – been here nearly a week now. Ally is feeling a LOT better! Her coughing has subsided to about 1x/hour – and while she’s starting to go a little stir crazy in this room, she’s managing this quite nicely.

She had music therapy today and pretended (very well) that she was Hannah Montana with the world’s coolest microphone. THEN, she also had physical therapy and got on the treadmill, used an exercise ball and hula hooped her way into a championship. THEN she had Art therapy and learned that if you color with a white crayon before painting, the paint won’t stick to your design! COOL!

Mom and dad are holding up ok too. It’s been great to have so many visitors. Yesterday we were fortunate enough to have the Astons drive all the way from Lancaster to spend a few hours with us in this tiny room. Alyssa loved playing with Charlotte, and mommy thought it was pretty great to have some mommy to mommy time too.

Bottom line: it’s a possibility (teeny tiny possibility) that we might be able to take alyssa home on Friday with the PICC line. We’ll have to go through training to learn how to administer the iv at home, but at least we’ll be in our own beds. We do, after all, have a wedding to attend this weekend and it would be wonderful if we could all go there together without any major sidetrips to philadelphia for medication.

that’s it… we’re on the mend – hoping to go home sooner than later.

thanks again for the cards, packages, visitors and thousands of prayers. it’s working!!