A Very Lengthy Update ft. Seizures

Welp, it is already September of 2023, and a lot of life has been lived since my last post highlighting all of 2021. I keep promising myself that I will be better at documenting our journey, but time goes quickly and life is hectic. In the past year and a half, a lot has been happening, including the birth of our son, Patrick!

Starting back at the beginning of 2022 (far before little brother was on the radar), we were in the midst of a terrible cold season with Piper. Piper attended daycare three days a week, and all winter long, she was having back to back sicknesses that would rarely, if ever, go away on their own without an antibiotic. Pair this along with her ear tubes falling out and having terrible ear infections for a month until we could get in to have her ENT specialist place new ones in February 2022, we were just miserable. Things just kept getting worse and worse. Somewhere along this timeline, Piper developed a new kind of seizure, where she would have one or multiple limbs twitch for a few seconds. When she is sick, her seizures are typically worse, so that makes it even harder to decipher if new seizure meds are working effectively.

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Expect the Unexpected | Welcoming Piper Ann

A failed newborn hearing screen. That’s how it all started. When Piper was born, she did not pass her hearing test in the hospital. The nurses and doctors didn’t seem overly concerned. Of course they told us the risk of hearing loss, but said that many times babies have gunk in their ear canals and it can work itself out. We were told to have a follow up hearing test when Piper was about a month old. Other than that question mark, we left the hospital as clueless as the next set of new parents with a healthy baby girl. During the following month, we were worried, but tried to not think the worst. But alas, the next test indicated that her hearing hadn’t improved. Again, we were scheduled for another follow up test…

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Where Have I Been??

 

Hello! It’s been a minute…more like a century since my last post. My last post was in April of 2016. I’m sad to say I haven’t kept up with blogging, but a LOT has happened! I got super busy at work, kept working our debt snowball, got engaged, started planning a wedding, got married, put my nose to the grindstone at work to get promoted, went on an awesome two week trip to Europe, moved to a new apartment, Mike got a promotion, we decided we officially wanted to move back to Michigan, and finally moved in December 2018 after Mike received a great job offer! I’m sure I’m missing a few key highlights in there as well… I do want to revisit the awesome things that have happened over the past few years and make some blog posts with the main intention of documenting the memories and pictures! Life surely is crazy.

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Thoughts on Graduating

Now that my time in college is quickly dwindling, I have recently been reflecting on my time here and have thought of a few things I will truly miss…and then some things I will not miss so much. I truly have enjoyed my college career and I will be driving away from my little 289 square foot apartment the day after I graduate with bittersweet feelings. I have had some great memories in this little apartment in this little town, and I really will miss the relationships I have formed here. The truth is, I do not know the next time I will be back here, and that is a weird nugget of information to accept when this has been my home for the past few years.

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