Miller Time: April 2008

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Our New Addition!

Diva Dolce!

Here she is! After much debate on if we should get a new dog! Mason finally convinced his Dad that he could not live with out one!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Happy Birthday Mason! We celebrated Mason's birthday this month! My little guy turned 5! Wow! He is such a fun loving kid!

I was in labor with Mason for 19 hours! 9 of which I thought would be a great idea to not have an epidural! I was really wrong and never made that mistake again! My water broke with Mason at about 9:00 p.m. when I was 36 weeks after being on bed rest for 4 weeks. It was exciting! Eric, York, and I were all way excited as Eric drove us to LDS hospital. After 19 long hours and close to having a c-section Mason came out! He was a beautiful baby even though he had a cone head from being in the birth canal way too long! He weighed in at 6 pounds and 4 ounces and was 19 inches long. He was in the NICU for 5 day because of a breathing episode he had and I stayed there the whole time! I was not ready to leave my son. When we brought him home he only weighed 5 pounds and 4 ounces. He was a tiny guy and by far made up for it as he got older!

Mason attends preschool at Challenger. He has learned a ton this year such as his ABC's the sounds they make and how to count. He has even learned some math! When we went to the doctor for his check up he weighted 46 pound. He is in the 76% for his weight and 66% for his height. Like I said he has made up for it! He is a fun loving kid. He loves to play with his friends and cousins and is nice to everyone. He would play all day if he could! He likes to play XBox with his Daddy and big brother York. His favorite thing to eat is pizza and cheeseburgers. He loves to pay soccer and watch football. His famous line is "I love my family!".

Mason got skate cloths, IPod Shuffle, Xbox game, Transformers, Soccer stuff, Hot Wheels, and a remote control car for his birthday!

Happy Birthday Mason! We love you!

Catching Up

I will get caught up this week!

Friday, April 4, 2008

I Ate my First Muff!

So I have to post this! I just had too! Last night I ate my first muff! Yes folks muff and I liked it! Now for those of you familiar with a muff you know what I am talking about! You can eat muff in just about any way 1/4, 1/2, or a whole muff! You can even get a muff special!

I can't take it any more!

Who names a sandwich muff??? Well Jason Deli does! It is actually a muffuletta but they abbreviate it on the menu! What are they thinking! It is however a great sandwich and you should try it! But muff????

So yes... I LIKE MUFF!

You should try it some time!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Just things about me!

Things I am grateful for...

1. My husband- he is such a great guy to me and everyone he knows!
2. My kids- They are so dang cute! They bring my life meaning!
3. My house- Although it may not be a big house on a hill it is my palace and I love making memory's in it!
4. My neighbors- Wait that is my family... I love it! My kids love it! And I know I can count on them if I ever need it!
5. My family- Although our greatest gift our parents gave us is sarcasm... we are pros and you know we don't like you if you aren't made fun of!
6.My in-laws- Yes they are part of my family! But they have done a lot for us and my kids and have given us some amazing memories!
7. My job- Even though I hate it and dread going and complain the whole time I am there it gives us extra cash and insurance for the kids!
8. My friends- They are awesome and I have so much fun with them! We never stop laughing and I always fill like I am just me around them!
9. My computer- Without it I could not blog!
10. Today's medicine- Besides I would not have a job... it has saved my children's and many others life's! Thank to all the wonderful health care professionals!
11. Cache actually being cuddly today- He just was a lover tonight and I soaked up every minute of it! I even held off the bathroom just so he wouldn't move!
13. Caches teachers and all teachers today!- They have been great to us and they get paid crap for what they do!
14. ASL and Sighing Time- Without it I could not communicate with my son!
15. Getting to meet my nephew for the first time... oh and seeing my sister!
16. God- Need I say more!

Things that piss me off...

1. Insurance not paying for hearing aids!
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Dumb ignorant people!
4. Racism

Things I wish I had right now...

1. New Levis... ask Eric I was dreaming of this the other night and I was pisst he woke me up before I got to try them on... but they were soooo cute!
2. A pedicure and one every month would be nice!
3. A tan because tan fat looks better then white fat
4. A nice toned body! HA HA!
5. A boob job, I really need this! I will have this some day! I WILL!
6. A better car for Eric, poor guy always gets the shaft!
7. Longer hair.... knock some sense into me if I ever think of cutting it again!
8. A bigger bathroom in the master... it is way too small!
9. Money to pay off all my bills or just my medical bills! I would totally take that!
10. 4 grand to go buy Caches hearing aids! He has on loaners right now!
11. Services for Cache after he turns 3, they just drop you off into nothing after that! Stupid state!
12. I knew ASL like I can speak! I will learn it all some day!

Not a bad list I would say!

Our Long QT Syndrome Story

My teenage years were full of sports and exercise. There was not a day that went by I didn’t have some sort of game or practice. My days consisted school, track, soccer, a jog, and finished up with some strength training. Never would you have guessed my heart was broken. I was older, married and about to have my second child, Cache. I was off to my usual 32 week check-up at my obstetrician office. That was the day our lives changed forever. It was that exciting moment when you get to hear that slushing heart beat and know that the big bump in your belly is this living being in your body. That slushing sound turned out to be my nightmare. My doctor explained to me that the baby’s heart rate was far too low and that my son had something wrong with him. This is something you never expect to hear when you are having a baby. Babies don’t come out sick? At least that was my naive way of thinking. My doctor told me to walk over to labor and delivery and he would meet me there as soon as he was finished with patients he had in his office. When I got to Labor and Delivery, they strapped me up to all these machines, and I had instant panic around me. Nurses were rushing around and almost screaming. All I could do was sit there and wonder what was going on. Next thing you know I was being prepped for an emergency C-section. That was until my doctor walked in the door and told them all to calm down. It was a sigh of relief. My doctor performed an ultra sound along with what felt like another 30 doctors. They all agreed with one thing, my baby was fine for now and needed to stay right where he was. He stated that there was something defiantly wrong with his heart, but until he was born they would not know what. After 36 weeks and lots of daily monitoring and doctor visits, I was induced and my beautiful little boy Cache came into the world fighting like a champ. The next few hours were about to change our lives forever. Cache was diagnosed with Long QT syndrome a few hours after birth and was immediately transferred to Sunrise Children’s Hospital. I was discharged and headed there to figure out just exactly what was to happen next. There we were greeted by the pediatric cardiologist who had done an ultrasound on Cache’s heart in utero. He began to explain the details of Long QT syndrome and how they treat it. He then told us they could not treat Cache because his heart rate was already dangerously low. To fix this, our son was to have open heart surgery and have a pacemaker placed. A pacemaker, isn’t that for old people? We were numb and just in a really bad dream. Three days after our perfect son’s birth he was placed with a pacemaker in his little tiny tummy. I remember that day clearly and as I held him waiting for the surgeons, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac was playing on the radio. It was a Saturday morning and we meet the surgical team. They answered all are questions and we walked my infant son down a long hall. We gave him a kiss and we said good-by. The hospital waiting room was a ghost town. We waited, and waited, and waited, and then did a little more waiting. I clearly remember seeing the whole surgical team walk into the deserted waiting room. My heart sank and I think my knees nearly hit the floor. Why were all of them coming in? Why did they all need to talk to us? As we approached them the head surgeon said “Everything went great.” The best words we had heard our whole lives. I am not the “reach out and give a hug to a stranger” kind of girl but I did just that. The next few weeks, after Cache’s pacemaker placement, had its up and downs. His heart rejected the pacemaker and fluid began to build around his heart. They eventually had to go in and put a drain in to his heart to relieve the fluid. We had trouble with feeding and jaundice. It was three weeks to the day that my son was able to come home and have his two older brothers hold him for the first time. Life with Cache has proven to be a challenging one. Cache never passed a newborn hearing screen and while most parents would be freaking out about this, we had much bigger fish to fry. We were told at the time of his birth that Cache could have a very rare form of Lonq QT Syndrome called Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome. This rare form of Long QT Syndrome causes sever to profound hearing loss. At about the age of three, this was confirmed through genetic testing but Cache also carries another genetic strain as well, Long QT Syndrome type 1. No one, as of then, had ever carried these two genes on the national registry. He had a double dose. It was also confirmed that I too had Long QT Syndrome type 1 and so did my other two biological children. Through the years Cache has had many obstacles he overcame. At the age of 2 ½ he had a deadly arrhythmia and was lucky to be alive. After that arrhythmia, it was then decided Cache needed his pacemaker replaced with an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) and have a left cardiac sympathetic denervation. It was a little over a year after the ICD placement in his stomach that it became infected. The ICD was removed and he was placed in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for a week until it was decided that he was big enough to have an ICD implanted in his chest. A few weeks later he had to go back in and have pieces removed that had been left in him on accident. Cache is a thriving child and plays like any other child. We have been very blessed and we all consider him our life saver. He not only saved his Mom, brother, and sister, but his Uncle and three cousins. I am the luckiest Mom in the world to be Cache’s Mom. He has given me far more then I could ever give him. Cache inspires people with his amazing smile, big blue eyes, and love of life. Cache has taught us and everyone surrounded by him that life is far too short and life is more than just the daily grind. It is about living life to the fullest and making sure those who you love, know you love them. It is about today, and living in today, not about what can happen in the future. We have today and that is all we need to get to tomorrow.

Miller Time

ERIC-MELISSA-YORK-MASON-CACHE-DYLANN

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Our New Addition!

Monday, April 28, 2008

April 11, 2003

Catching Up

Friday, April 4, 2008

I Ate my First Muff!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Just things about me!

Come What May and Love It

How Two Made Six

Our Long QT Syndrome Story

Cache...Living with Long Qt

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