Hey everyone! I don’t have a ton of time here, we’re going to be moving to another room in a few, but I wanted to say we’re alive and well. THANK YOU for all the thoughts and prayers and things sent. I’m overwhelmed with all the support we’ve gotten in this short time.

I will be responding in more detail later but wanted to say we’re all okay, Lilly is playing her Nintendo DS right now (a good sign!). She’s so tired and not quite herself yet, very quiet. i think she’s scared a bit, not sure what’s goign on, but getting slowly better.

Sam and I were able to get a few hours sleep at the Ronald McDonald house which was a life saver. We’re meeting for another teaching time with the diabetes education team in about 30 min to learn some more.  I feel a lot better today with the whole situation, not totally sunk in yet but I know it’s going to be maneagable.

If you could just pray for Lilly that she’s able to accept the whole situation, I think she still thinks that when we go home that things will go back to normal, and I’m not sure how to break the news to her. Just pray that God’s peace and wisdom would be with us all in the situation and how to deal with Lilly.

I love you guys! We are hoping to come home tomorrow, or Sat morning.

Hey everyone,

We’ve had an emergency with  Lilly, our 5 year old. She’s been sick the last day or so and today was not responding well so we took her to the ER. They’ve informed us that she is in severe diabetic shock, and we’re now in the process of going to a hospital about an hour away where they’re going to attempt to stabilize her and get her back to normal. That is going to take 1-2 days and then we will be having to go through education/etc on how they’ll teach us how to deal with this. The doctor informed us that she’s Type I diabetes, which we’ve never known, so now we’ll begin the process of how to deal with that?

My husband’s brother is Type I diabetic, so we have some kind of idea how this works, but obviously this is a huge shock and I’m not sure how to deal with it at this point. If you could please pray that she is stabilized quickly and we can work this out I would appreciate it.

I’m scared to death right now and in shock, just trying to figure out what will have to be postponed/etc and worried about my girl. She was totally unresponsive, but now she’s upset and just keeps saying she wants to go home and trying to pull the cords off her arm.

Sam is in the ambulance with her on the way there, I’m gathering up stuff to take to the hospital and trying to tie up loose ends. Please please pray for her, I know prayer works, so as much as you can send up for her I’d appreciate it.

I will prbably be able to log in to the internet via the laptop as soon as we get her settled and will update asap. Thank you.