Thankful

I haven't posted anything in a while, mainly because Isabel has been sick. A few weeks ago she had a couple of infections in her trach/lung area so she needed some antibiotics. She was feeling better, then two thursdays ago she started looking like she wasn't feeling good again. She started running a temp on friday morning and by friday evening she was looking really bad, just burning up and her heart rate was super high (in the 220's) so we packed her up and took her to the e.r. They got her back to evaluate her with in a few minutes and as soon as the nurse saw how high her heart rate was they took her straight back to a room and within mintues she had multiple doctors and nurses working on her. You know it's pretty bad when you see 1 doctor right away in the e.r. let alone 3 or 4 doctors. After about 30 minutes she was taken up to the icu and Francisco and I had to leave her so they could place a central line and an arterial line, which are sterile procedures since both go in the big veins/arteries that go straight to the heart. She was started on a bunch of antibiotics and was severely dehydrated so they started pumping fluids into her pretty quick. Turns out she was in septic shock from a blood infection. We had no idea she was that sick going in so we were definitely scared. Isabel has been in the hospital a few times, but I think this was the worst in terms of how sick she was. Luckily the antibiotics kicked in pretty quickly and she was feeling better within a couple of days. She was in the icu for 6 days and in the respiratory care unit for 5 days and now she is home and feeling great! We never figured out exactly how she got the infection in her blood, the theory is that the antibiotics she had been on before killed all the good bacteria in her stomach and intestines, then she caught a stomach flu which turned into a super infection since there was no good bacteria to stop it and it somehow spread into her blood.

This thanksgiving we are definitely thankful for the amazing medical care and technology available to us.....and health insurance! You do not want to know how much a week in the icu costs! We are thankful for the doctors and nurses who took care of our Izzy and helped her get better. We are so thankful Isabel is such a tough girl and was able to hang in there and come back home with us. We are thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who has blessed us with so many things, the best of which are our two daughters, Isabel and Coralie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I love my Izzy....

a lot!

Halloween's Past

I can't get over how adorable my girls look all dressed up for Halloween!

Isabel's first Halloween she was a butterfly...passing out candy is hard work :)

Then came the cutest little minnie mouse ever!

And last year we had a pretty fairy and added a little teddy bear to the mix.

Cute cute cute!
Coming soon - this years Halloween cuteness.

We need your help.......

to find a CURE for SMA!!

We will be joining our friends and family for Arizona's annual Walk-n-Roll to cure SMA on November 22 and our team goal is to raise $2000! All proceeds will go directly to Families of SMA to provide funding for research and to help families with medical expenses and equipment.

Most of you reading this already know that our daughter, Isabel, has the most severe form of SMA. It is very possible that a cure for SMA can be found in her lifetime!!! But research requires ALOT of money. This is where you come in. Please donate if you can and forward this information on to all your families and friends, send an email, post on your blog, whatever you can do to help is greatly appreciated!

To donate, go to

http://www.fsma.org/LWC/IsabelCampos

or if you would like to mail your donation, please email me for our address

erinwalk1@juno.com

If you would like to join our team by helping with fundraising and walking with us, please go here http://www.fsma.org/ArizonaWalk

to register and join "Team Isabel"

Need some inspiration? Watch this video...

http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=8a08ddf51c066a7a76cc8c&skin_id=601&pid=624&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Love it!

70 degrees and breezy!

It feels colder than wintertime in Yuma.

This is why we moved here!

Plus....we have baskin robins here. Yum!

Irony

Francisco had to go to Yuma for work for a couple of weeks. While he's been gone I've been doing some yard work, mowing and trimming the grass and trying to fill in the bare spots. Earlier this evening I finished loosening up the dirt on a bunch of bare spots on the lawn and putting down seed. I was feeling pretty proud of myself for all the hard work I have done out there. Who needs guys right? Then I look up and see a HUGE spider crawling across a web that goes from a tree in my yard over to the side of the house. Seriously one of the biggest spiders I have ever seen in real life. And I am not about to try to knock it down and have it fall on me! I finished cleaning up the back yard and got ready to go inside (with out taking my eye off the spider) and then I saw ANOTHER big, huge, gigantic spider on a web that went between the two trees in the yard. I officially MISS and NEED my husband!! And I will not be going in my back yard until he comes home.

Mini garden

I love that I can have a pot of flowers here that won't fry in the sun, shrivel up and die!
I 've been wanting a garden for a while but we aren't supposed to plant anything in the ground so I decided to make a mini garden. I planted a couple tomato, cucumber, jalapeno, mini watermelon and strawberry plants, and some basil and oregano. Hopefully they will do ok in the small pots.

This is our front patio.
(Thanks to Francisco for painting the pots for me! They were ugly gray before.)