One More Try...

Please keep Ava in your prayers today. At about three o'clock they are going to give Ava one more chance to be extubated. If she can not tolerate it they will go ahead and trach her. I will update later.

Kaden wants to help type, so I will let him tell you some things : )!!!
cow
apple moo kaden smart movie blue walk ear quice kiss joe all done

So, I am not too sure what exactly it is that Kaden was trying to tell you. I will try to make some sense of it. The cow, apple, moo...well, I guess he is telling you that the cow moo's but not sure why he threw apple in the mix. Then he typed his name and I told him he was smart so he typed that. Then I think what he was telling you is that he is watching a movie...Blues Clues. I don't know where ear came from or even what the next word is...he kept signing something after typing it but I don't know for sure what he was trying to say. He typed kiss and then gave me a kiss and then added Joe and pointed to his movie...Joe on Blues Clues. Then from what you can read...he was all done. He is so helpful sometimes. I feel like he has sooo much to say. Last night the two of us were communicating and he was full of information. I just feel so bad for him at times...thinking of how frustrated it would be to not be able to get my point across or just tell someone exactly what is on my mind. I am so proud of him though, to be able to figure out a way to get his point across as clearly as he does.

What about the storms that blew through last night?? Geez. The tornado sirens went off twice yesterday evening and I was with Kaden by myself. Nate was up here at the hospital. The RMH manager was so sweet though, she ran up to our room both times to help me carry him and his stuff downstairs to the basement. Well, then I woke up around 2 this morning and looked outside. The wind was blowing sooo hard. Nate and I turned on the tv to see what was going on. They said that the winds were between 50-70 mph. CRAZY. It kind of scared me. There are so many trees down. I kept looking out the bedroom window because across the street the house has a porch swing. That thing was going to town, I was scared it was going to end up braking out the house window. Well, we survived...I probably lost 10 pounds running Kaden and his stuff up and down three flights of stairs!!! Well, I hope everyone who was caught in this storm stayed safe and didn't have too much damage.