Much more whooping and praising to be had...

here at the leininger house today!

It started out as a typically very busy day here with lots of errands when I got a phone call from Dr. Atkins requesting that I hurry to Methodist Children’s Hospital so they could do more tests (via blood work) on Mia.
I hung up the phone and promptly burst into tears right in the middle of my hair salon. Quickly finished up, grabbed Mia from my mom at our hand off point and drove frantically to the hospital.

We waited in the lobby and I tried to administer her afternoon IV and the picc line appeared to be clogged, again, I panicked and burst into tears begging the nurses to please help us… imagining the worst… they paged Dr. Atkins….

After a bit of a wait (watching mia twirl in the lobby in her pink ballerina tutu that she had insisted on wearing to Grammy’s today) and talking about princesses and snacks… we were called in. They did more immune deficiency tests and one other test and then Dr. Atkins came in and REMOVED MIA’S PICC LINE! No more tubes attached to my baby! No more IVs! No more midnight antibiotics and worrying of clogging picc lines! SHE IS THRILLED and so am i!

On her way out – while doing her vitals, she did have a low fever (100) and she has developed a cough. Dr. Atkins is thinking it is probably just a common cold, but quickly did a panel of tests on her with multiple throat and nose swabs. You just gotta love how thorough this woman is!

I dashed off to sign my portion of the paperwork to close on our house that we officially sold today (yay!) as I missed the 3:30 appt, but they waited for me, and Phil finished up paperwork at MCH and walked Mia out. He said her smile and tight-jumping-for-joy-hugs were just as joyful as they were yesterday.

SHE. IS. PRECIOUS!

We then all met up at Chili’s with my parents to celebrate Mia’s wonderful progress in true Leininger family style… LAVA CAKE! J

It really turned into a terrific day and I just had to share!

Love,
Julie and Mia – my happy twirly girl!