There's No Place Like Home!

At times I felt like Dorothy and how hard she worked to get home!

I was wishing I had some of these spiffy ruby slippers...

Never Give Up! We made it...

There truly is no place like home!

Thank you for all your Love, Support and PRAYERS that got us home!

We are very blessed.

Woo Hoo!

We got medical clearance!! We are in London. We fly out early in the morning to HOME!! We are so happy. Katie is actually very tired, but everything went well without a hitch. They have wheelchairs everywhere waiting for her. We walked out of the airport and there was this very nice gentleman with Katie's name on a card and he drove us to the hotel. We are staying at a Hilton, the clerk who checked us in was from Iasi, Romania. So she upgraded our room and we are now in the Executive Lounge. This hotel is connected to the Gatwick Airport which is the one we fly out of in the am. Life is good... 1:30 tomorrow we will be happily home! We are so grateful to Virgin Atlantic and British Airways for giving us clearance to fly!!!

it better be Wednesday...

We are still in the hospital.... and we aren't coming home Tuesday... but now Wednesday is the day. We will really believe it when the plane takes off and is in the air, until then we are still hopeful that it will really happen. We do get to head to London tomorrow though, which will be nice to have a change. We will stay the night there and then fly home Wednesday morning. I am so ready to be home again! Katie is even more ready...

Sunday update...

This is the Sunday Update, it has been a quiet Sunday.. Katie is right now having her last antibiotic IV. She is so happy, then they then can take out the IV.. The Dr has been in and given us all the necessary paperwork, the official Katie is fit to fly paper. We hope tomorrow the insurance can get the rest of the flight arrangements done. We will spend Monday night at the hospital per the doctor request. Katie says, "Dang" She was hoping for some variety in food. To celebrate that we might really leave, we went and bought a chocolate bar at the hospital cafe. I will say Milka chocolate bars give Dove a run for the money. The doctor told Katie to wear those lovely white socks for 6 months. Katie is banking on a second opinion from doctors in the states. She does not want to wear them to Church, and under Capri's. We have had several discussions (Katie terms them lectures) about following doctors orders. She is still holding out for the Doctor at home. I am going with her to the first appointment so I know what the doctor tells her.

Hopefully Tuesday...

We have had a delay in our travel plans. The insurance company is arranging our return home. (and they are paying - woo hoo!) but they can not get medical clearance from the airlines by Monday AM since it is the weekend. So we will probably be flying out Tuesday... So Sad.. The good news, we have found a little fridge in our room in a cupboard. We are so happy, we were tired of drinking room temperature water!

Our Daily Agenda

• 7:00 am Lady brings in fresh water glasses and German newspaper (sometimes they remember that we don't know German and we don't get offered the paper)


• 8:00 am Nurse comes and steals Katie's blood and starts her morning IV of antibiotics


• 8:10 am Breakfast arrives and everyday its the same (not too much to panic about), offered tea and coffee


• 9:30 am Ladies come in and change all of the sheets (they think we need fresh down comforter covers daily)


• 12:00 pm Lunch arrives and Katie picks whatever looks the best (a little scary for me though)


• 1:00 pm Ladies come in and and clean the room


• 2:00 pm Guy comes and tries to sell us magazines for $12 each or more German newspapers


• 2:15 pm Lady comes by trying to give us pedicures (an every other day occurrence)


• 2:30 pm Our afternoon cake is delivered (50% chance that it is edible), offered tea and coffee again


• 3:00 pm Nurse comes in to start Katie's 2nd IV of the day


• 5:00 pm Dinner is delivered (again Katie gets first pick... sometimes she doesn't want either plate)


• 8:00 pm Nurse comes and starts Katie's 3rd and last IV of the day


• 10:00-ish pm We head to bed ready for the same thing tomorrow

For entertainment in between all of the scheduled activities we read every blog that has ever been started, check our e-mail, and read magazines over and over again. Here are pictures of our dinner trays and then the cake they delivered yesterday:

Monday is the day!

Monday is the day we get to go home! The arrangements are being made!

We ventured out of the room today! Woo Hoo! But not without a lot of grief. The nurses were freaking out...and insisted that Katie use the wheelchair. The doctor keeps telling her it is okay to walk a little and there is a garden here at the hospital. The garden is not very far from our room but the nurses would not let Katie walk there. It was just too far. The whole outing was 10 minutes! When we got to the garden Katie thought she could get out of that wheelchair and walk around a little bit... I quickly made her get back in... what if the nurses were watching?!? Katie kept telling me she could walk... but to no avail. So here is Katie enjoying the garden from the wheelchair that she thinks she doesn't need. It was a pleasant morning.