YAY!!!!!

August 18, 2006 at 01:42 PM MDT

Here we are in ICS after 2 weeks in the PICU! We came up yesterday. We have a nice big room, but the blinds don't work, so we can't see out the window!!! we survived 2 weeks without a window, we can survive another one or two. Tanner hasn't had any big crazy stuff happen in several days, which is very encouraging!

I don't know if I mentioned the other day that a culture of his nose secretions that was taken on the 9th, came back on the 14th as positive for adenovirus. So, they put us on precautions. That means that everyone who comes in has to gown/glove/mask. (although only about half actually do) They act like it's really no big deal that he has this "adenovirus." However, from looking it up on the internet, it seems that adenovirus can be very dangerous, even deadly in someone who is immunocompromised like Tanner. It can even cause bleeding in the intestines and bladder. But they don't think the adenovirus is what caused all Tanner's bleeding. In any case, we feel like Heavenly Father has worked a miracle for Tanner and rid his little body of whatever was causing such awful complications.

Even with all the ups and downs, Tanner always seems to come through it. Maybe our Father in Heaven just wants to give us time to prove our faithfullness. If things were always easy there would be no test of our faith!

ANyway, we're doing good!! Megan