Chicago part II

 

The second museum we went to was Adler Planetarium

We went on a "Pirate Life" cruise and it was so fun! it was john and my first time being on a ship that big and it was so fun!!

we found a delicious bakery in downtown Chicago. This was red velvet cheesecake!! so yummy!

Chicago Part I

 

 

John and I were able to sneak away to Chicago, Illinois for a few days for our anniversary. Even though our anniversary is in March between surgeries and school we were unable to go until July

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We were there July 2nd-july 5th

 

This was the view from our hotel room, we stayed in the Hotel Congress near downtown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were on level #13 of 14 levels

 

 

 

 

Our hotel was also right across the street from Buckingham fountain. We did not get to our hotel until 4:00pm so we didn't do much on the 2nd other than walk across the street to this fountain and order some deep dish pizza for dinner.

 

 

 

 

Thursday we did all of the museum's. This is the field, its a history museum

 

 

Totem polls

 

 

Shoes

 

 

Women's "Fancy Shoes"

 

 

 

 

"Binding" shoes

 

 

 

 

 

This is what Native American's used to carry their kids around in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Sweet Girls Health

We have been so blessed with Mikayla's health because of her prematurity. She has not had a lot of major health problems, had a pretty uneventful NICU stay. Almost one week ago [Tuesday of last week] I had taken her into the doctor for being sick [turns out she had RSC & double ear infection] and the doctor decided to do a full blood panel on her. Her glucose was pretty high, so they had me bring her back in awhile later to recheck it and it was still high. I then heard the words that I was fearing the most: Diabetes.

I was not sure how this would affect my sweet girl. Juvenile Diabetes at 16 MONTHS?!? What kind of childhood would she have growing up?

We were able to get into a specialist at Children's Hospital in Omaha the next day! The doctor up there thought that maybe this was due to her pancreas being underdeveloped from her prematurity. We go back up to get testing done on her pancreas in June to see what is going on with it. If it is due to her pancreas, there may be medications available to help, or a possible pancreas transplant. Since everyone needs one of those to survive, it is a harder one to get. The other possibility is that our sweet girl is diabetic and it is something that we will have to deal with.

So far she has been an excellent little patient. In fact, she LIKES to play with her glucose meter. She has done so good in letting us take her blood, she doesn't even cry anymore when we poke her to get the blood drawn on her little fingers.

So far we have been able to control it with her diet, which is a HUGE blessing. I'm sure she would be fine with insulin, I am not so sure I would be!