Sunday night ---not in SLC

Continuing saga of the life of Will

Well, we have changed our plans again.
First, we are back home tonight. As I told you last night, I came home to get my class ready for a sub for a couple of weeks. I stayed at the school very late and then got up early to go see our baby before I left. Then I got the call from Will saying he's coming home.


This is what happened. He was up for the liver biopsy on Tuesday afternoon.They wanted to keep Will there until the biopsy. One of the docs figured out that Will has had aspirin every day for a long while. They don't want to do any procedure until that has a chance to get out of his system. It works as a type of blood thinner. So we might be waiting for another week or two before they can do that. There was no way that Will was going to wait all that time in the hospital so he advised the docs that he was going home. Dr. Cahill said she couldn't see why not. So I left Hagerman around noon and went back up to the the big city and we drove home tonight. We don't know what day we will have to go back yet. I will put it on this blog when they let us know.

NOW FOR THE REAL REASON WILL CAME HOME.......

HE WAS MISSING HIS GIRL
ABOVE: Will was letting her know what those docs did to him.
Kayli wasn't happy about that. Those doctors better watch out.
Just kidding---we have the best doctors ever!

Will was trying to put Kayli to sleep. She's had a busy day....

because it's her first month birthday. Yup, she's one month old today.
She got to dress up for church this morning but she wasn't ready to say goodbye to Grandma because I was leaving to go back to SLC. She let everyone know that she wanted to go with me. Mom doesn't listen too well. I tried to explain it to Angel but---no go.

Here's the happy family getting her in her little front back pack. I wonder what it's called. Anyway, they walk to church on these pretty days. Aren't they a great looking family? Maybe I'm prejudice just a little.

Below: On the way home we stopped by and saw Sarah and her two kids in Tremonton. Will and Sarah didn't get to visit at all at the hospital. They had a good visit. We had lunch at Wendy's. Nothing but the best to celebrate Will's release from the hospital.

We also stopped by Danny and AnnMarie's on the way home. We couldn't stay there too long, for one reason Will needed to get home to his baby; the other reason is because those two are still in the yucky, sweet lovey, dovey honeymoon stage. It was a little toooo much for us but we are happy that those two are so happy.

So once again we wait until they let us know. Waiting isn't what I'm good at but what can you do??? I have all my classroom stuff done for a couple of weeks so I have it easy at school this week. We should know on Tuesday when we go back to Salt Lake. I will let you know.

God has His perfect time for all this to happen. We know He's got everything taken care of for Will.

It was a great Sunday to drive around and Will was very, very happy to crawl into his bed tonight. He'll sleep well for sure.

GOD BLESS

update early Sunday morning

Will is still in the hospital. I came home to Idaho so I could get all my stuff ready for a sub for next week. Tom stayed with Will in SLC. The docs want Will to stay in the hospital until it's time to do a liver biopsy Tuesday afternoon. This way they can watch his numbers and not put him at risk for anything. I don't know what "anything" is but I'm glad they are being careful. Will sure isn't. He's not happy about being in there at all. They aren't "doing" anything and it's very hard to justify staying in that place for, as Will puts it, "nothing." The doctors say the soonest he could be going home would be the later part of next week. They will have answers about his liver then.

I will go back this morning some time and then maybe we can sneak him out for a drive or something. If any doctors are reading this---I'm only kidding, I would never take him out without permission. wink, wink.

He had dialysis today and they were able to take more off than yesterday so that's good. They gave him another dose of antibiotics with dialysis and then they will give him another on Monday when he has dialysis again.

I will blog tomorrow night and let you know how his day went.

I hope everyone has a great Sunday and they do something special. Summer is almost over for all of us, don't waste it. God put this special day just for you. :)

GOD BLESS

Friday update from SLC

I said that we would probably have a quiet day and we did. Will slept on and off until about 3 this afternoon. His arm is feeling so much better so the meds are working on that. The liver docs are still doing more testing and we probably won't know anything until the first of the week. Will slept through most of Danny (his cousin who just got married) and AnnMarie's visit. They said they would come back tomorrow when he might be able to stay awake more. I don't know when he's going to go down to dialysis tomorrow, but he will get another dose of antibiotics then.

His level of prograf (the anti-rejection med) is slowly coming down so that is good news. We had another good visit with Sarah just before her mom took her home to Tremonton. We might be able to see her on our way home, hopefully. Will and Sarah didn't get to visit at all while she was in the hospital because he wasn't feeling well then.

Kayli called Uncle Will a couple of times to tell him that she's missing him a lot. When I talked to her she cried so I think she misses me the most, just don't tell Will.

We know God is hearing all your prayers and we want to thank you for them. I will blog tomorrow night again.

GOD BLESS

update from SLC

Even just being gone from our little girl for a few days is killing me.

Angel knows that, so she sends Uncle Will, Grandma and Grandpa little pictures on the phone. We love getting them so much. She just has a way of brightening our day. I will share a few with you all. Isn't she the sweetest thing?

Below is her loving her little pink bathtub. She's going to be a fish, I think.

(I know the coloring is bad but it's good enough to get the picture.)

So on to Uncle Will's day, I mean Will's day. He had an ultrasound done of his spleen and liver this morning first thing. Then we tried to make our appt. with the liver doctor. They couldn't see Will because he's now an inpatient. How silly that is. But it did work out well because the special doctor that we needed to see just happened to be the one that's for the hospital patients this week. God just works great things all the time. So he had some tests run and then he came in and saw us tonight after six sometime. He told us a few things that they are looking at and testing for. We don't need to get into all that but they really don't have any definite answers yet about what is causing his liver and spleen to act up. They are going to run a whole bunch of blood work in the morning and that will rule out a lot. Some of the tests results won't be back for a few days so we don't know if we will know anything before they kick us out of here. We really, really like the liver doc. Will and he just hit it off and he's very intelligent. Knows his stuff and we are comfortable with him. Praise God.

His infection in the arm is looking a little better we think, so the antibiotics might be kicking in already. They did do an ultrasound of the arm this afternoon, I know what you're asking yourself (it's the same thing we did)---why didn't they do the two ultrasounds together?? But anyway we did get some good news. There is no blood clot in the arm. YEA!!! It's still really sore and swollen.

Dr Cahill came up and visited a little. I think she misses Will a little. So she says that once we know that his infection is going away we should be able to finish the meds at home. This just might be one of our shorter stays. She said maybe even by Sunday. We have seen a few of our old friends. We miss them but I wish we could see them somewhere else.

We really don't know how the infection got in there and to what extent the damage is but we will by the time everyone is finished with him.

One of his anti-rejection med levels are really high so they are watching that closely also. He didn't have a good day and it could be caused by the med level, the jaundice, the infection, or all the testing that they are doing. Plus he had dialysis today, so he hasn't been able to keep anything down. He didn't even watch the BSU game, but he did TIVO it so he can watch it when we get home.

I know tomorrow will be a much better day. I am so glad this happened on a three day weekend. Besides the blood draws, there shouldn't be that much commotion in Will's room tomorrow. He will have some rest time.

All his old doctors are the ones that are the "floor" doctors this week. How great is that. It's nice not to have to train new doctors.

By the way, Sarah, our transplant friend that you all helped pray for right before Will got his lungs, well, she's on the same floor just two doors down from Will. She had a little pneumonia but she will be going home tomorrow, Thank the good Lord. We have had some good visiting time.

I will post more tomorrow night and let you how much better Will is feeling.

GOD BLESS AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR KIND WORDS AND WONDERFUL PRAYERS.

Wednesday in SLC

Well, we had to come down to SLC earlier than we expected. Will's left arm got an infection in it and they tried a few days on oral antibiotics. It didn't seem to work and he was getting worse so the dialysis center suggested we take him into the ER. We called Dr. Cahill's office and they told us to get down to SLC asap. We left after dialysis and after I got my class ready for a sub. Then we left and got up here around 2 in the morning. We got up early to get in to see the good doc. She told Will that he was going to have a "sleep-over" so everyone can find out what's going on. Will had lots of doctor visits and lab draws and xrays today and we don't know anything yet. He is still going to try and get to his liver specialist tomorrow (Thurs.) morning for his appt. Hopefully we can still get things done at that appt. But, who knows? They have Will on IV antibiotics and I think it's already starting to work. We will let everyone know when they tell us anything. I will for sure blog tomorrow night to tell everyone how that appt. went.

Coach called and told me to remind Will that they have a date to watch the BSU game tomorrow night so he better get home in time.

Please, Will needs prayers for his infection to clear up and for his liver appt. We want them to find something really easy to fix and then on to transplant. AMEN

GOD BLESS

Sunday night, already the end of August.

Here are the pictures I promised you on Friday. The first two are my favorites. It's hard to capture the "love" that surrounds those two so I will keep trying.

Below: Here is my little girl celebrating my birthday with me. What a present she is!!!!!

Here is Grandpa Tom getting piled on by Candace and Cali.

Curtis and Jen came down for the weekend and it was a great time. Will and Curtis are close and Jen just fits in so well with those two (Heaven help her).

Below: Kayli is telling Uncle Will a story, a story only Uncle Will can hear.

It must have been a funny story, it cracked her up.

And she's still laughing--well, really she's starting to cry, but to me it looked like she was laughing.

Below: Here is Aaron with his girls, no wait, not just girls-Carson stuck his head in at the last minute.

Below: Here is my step-mother, Cherie, helping me celebrate my birthday also. I can't find the picture I took of my dad. I must have deleted it, oops, sorry Dad.

Below: I am sitting outside on our back lawn and the kids, Candace, Cali (Curtis' girl), and Carson. We were watching the lightening show. Kids are so much fun with their imagination.

Below: Here is my little girl playing super"girl"

We had a fun weekend and Will is feeling okay, he feels the best when he's got his little love in his arms. We are going to SLC for a doctor's appt. on Thursday (see the blog before this one). I will blog when we get back from the appointment.

GOD BLESS

Friday August 28, 2009

Well, we got some news from Salt Lake. Ann, the kidney transplant coordinator called and said that the drs. reviewed Will's cat scan of his stomach and pelvic area. They found that Will's spleen is enlarged so they need to check it out. Ann said usually this is caused by something wrong with the liver. (just keep saying a little bump in the road) So a liver specialist (gastrointestinal doctor) is going to check things out next Thursday up in Salt Lake. So we are heading back to SLC on Wednesday night and we will be there bright and early Thursday morning. Then Will will have a dialysis treatment somewhere up there before we come home Thursday night.

So more prayers please.

We had a good week, it was my birthday on Tuesday and we had a little cake and ice cream with family and friends. But the best was that I got to hold Kayli for a long, long, long time. That was the best present, really when I could get her away from Uncle Will. God has blessed me with so many people with love in their hearts and it makes me sooo happy.

I will have more pictures on Sunday, hopefully. We are having a few people come through Hagerman this weekend and we are excited to see them.

I pray that God has blessed you all with a lot of love surrounding you.

Here's another Sunday

Will had his cat scan of his stomach and veins (two completely different ones) on Wednesday. They were a lot easier than he figured. The nurse said that they would have someone read them and send them on to the kidney transplant doctors by Thursday. The transplant team meets on Thursday so we were hoping that maybe, just maybe, we would hear something on Friday. NOPE. Anyway it was probably too early. They do meet every Thursday and decide cases so probably we won't hear now until next Friday whether he gets his okay for transplant. So please keep the prayers going. Thanks so much.

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Will spent the waiting time with his new girl. Kayli came over on Sunday to visit Uncle Will (and us too), but mainly Uncle Will. He said he would watch her while I got some things done. The first picture is him watching her and he really is watching closely. So take a look.....

This next picture is how I found them a few minutes later. I don't know which one rocked the other to sleep, but.... how sweet!

Below is Kayli with her friends. She's not too sure about the croaking frog but she really likes the pink duck. She looks so much older. Today is her two week birthday.

Below is a picture of Angel trying to tease Kayli with her ice cream cone. Kayli didn't even care.

Below: I really think she was laughing at me in this picture.

We had a good time at a family patio party at Will's Aunt Karen's house on Saturday after dialysis. Will doesn't feel too good after dialysis but he really wanted to go and he wasn't sorry. Billie and Christi were there with their families along with my mom. Uncle Bill (my mom's brother) was there also and an old friend, Gwen was there too. We watched Sadie run and run and run and run and run. Yes, it did tire Will out just watching but she is so cute. Here are the Billie's two kids with their Aunt CeeCee (Christi).

Below is a picture of my mom and two of her great-grandchildren, Coby and Sadie. My mom had a birthday this week so we celebrated it at our house.

Happy Birthday, Mom

We probably will have some more pictures up during the week and, of course, if we hear anything I will post it on the blog.

GOD BLESS

Monday update

This morning, Monday, Ann (the kidney transplant coordinator) called and said Will's
blood work came back and he doesn't have any antibodies in his blood. I asked what that means and she said that was very good. With all of Will's transfusions that he would probably have some and they might prevent him from transplant. So he doesn't and that's great.

Now on to the next step, on Wednesday he will go into Twin and get a cat scan of his arteries and veins, and another one for his stomach and pelvic region. This will tell them of any reason that the kidney won't "fit" in there. This might be the last test before they allow the transplant, but I don't know how long it will take to get the results. So please continue to pray for Will's testing. We really, really appreciate it.

IF YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THE LAST SET OF PICTURES OF OUR BABY, SCROLL DOWN.

GOD BLESS

Saturday August 15

So Will had dialysis today. He did okay...............
Enough about Will, did I tell you what a beautiful granddaughter I have? (I know, I am a bit prejudiced and a little obsessed.) Just look at the pictures below and see if I'm not right.

This is one of my favorites (well, they all are).

She's going to her first doctor checkup.

I think she's hoping that George has to go in instead of her.

Sweet dreams for a sweet princess.

Angel sent me this yesterday with a note that Kayli was missing her grandma. I think I might go out and buy her a gold mine.

What a pout, she has that "Atwood" pout for sure.


Below: See this isn't all about Kayli, here's Will holding Kayli.
He can't get enough of her. The way he looks at her sometimes brings tears to my eyes.

Below: Grandpa and his new girl, she's smiling. Now Grandpa is going out to buy her another gold mine.

Below: for some reason, I love ruffles on little girls' bum-bums (yes, that's what I call it). So this is the first outfit with ruffles so I had to take a picture. You would not believe this little one's closet--full of clothes.

Aaron changes her clothes three or four times a day just because she looks good in all her new clothes.

He's such a good dad and Angel's bouncing back so quickly. I don't think I have ever seen her this happy. They are making great parents.

Below: Here's our good friends, Coach and Donna Clark being introduced to the newest and best. It was funny because she cried when she saw Randy. Funny. So now I have to go out and buy her another gold mine. How many does that make anyway?



Here's that guy again----what was his name again? Oh yea, Uncle Will. Just teasing.

Coach brought over a Nike Basketball so Uncle Will can start working with her. All she wants is her binky right now, but Will said he will start working with her tomorrow right after lunch. I really don't know if he's teasing or not.

Tomorrow we are all going to try to go to church, even Will. So hopefully I will have some church pictures of her tomorrow night, maybe even with that guy that you all come into this blog to read about. HeeHee.

Life is so darn good. God has worked His best miracle yet.

I hope you all have a great Sunday.

GOD BLESS and keep you all safe.

Second day of Kayli's life

This is the second installment of Grandma's
little angel. I promised you more pictures and here
they are. I know I will be putting more of them on here, even though

this is Will's blog. But, as you can see from the first picture, she

might be the love of Will's life.

Below: Here she is posing with George the monkey before

she got to home from the hospital.

Below: Here is another set of grandparents. This is Buzz and Kay Beutler,

Buzz is Aaron's dad. They were at the hospital with us but we didn't

get any pictures of them with Kayli. They kind of think she's special too.

Angel and Aaron brought the little princess home around 2 this afternoon.

Angel is doing so good for just having a baby. They had lots of company and I took pictures of a few of them.

Below: Here is some good friends of Kayli's. Jeff and Charyl.

Jeff isn't very good at sharing babies. So Charyl will have to

come back when he's at work.

below: Here is Mindy and little Breanna meeting Kayli. Mindy

and Kristen came up to the hospital but Bre didn't get to meet

her until today. All she wanted to do was hold her, but she's a

little small for that. It was cute.

Below: Carson's mom brought him over to meet Kayli. He has been

really excited to meet her but then he got shy and didn't want anything to

do with her. So I took him in Kayli's room and let him be with her

with just me watching. It worked and then he didn't want to let

her go. We kept asking if we could take her and he kept saying "nope."

Below: I think she's just plain tired. I really wish you all could see her

in person. She is sooooo much cuter than photos can tell.

The family is doing fine and Will came over to Angel's house as soon as he got done with dialysis. He stayed for quite a while even though he was still cramping from dialysis. I guess when I move in they will just have to make a room for Uncle Will too.

Today they took the second blood sample to take the place of the one they lost last week and sent if off to Salt Lake hospital to get tested. We should hear something in about two weeks. Until then we will just keep on doing what we're doing, and praying for a kidney transplant. All your prayers are appreciated.

Will still has some really cute pics of the "Little Ray of Sunshine" on his phone, as soon as I figure out how to put them on here, I will.

Thanks and GOD BLESS

SHE'S HERE!!!!!!!

INTRODUCING:
KAYLI MAE BEUTLER

BORN SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009 AT 1:57 P.M.
THE LITTLE FAMILY IS DOING WELL.

LITTLE BABY, BIG BLESSING.

p.s. Isn't she the most beautiful baby in the whole world!!!!!

Angel started her contractions on Saturday morning. She went into the hospital about noon and they sent her home because she wasn't progressing. She then went back in around ten Saturday night. She was having contractions all night. This might be too much information, so just skip this part if you would rather. About 6:30 am they finally gave her the epidural. An hour later they gave her something to speed the contractions up and then they broke her water. Kayli finally made her appearance into this world around 1:57 p.m. We were all pretty wiped out, but Angel did great and she's such a proud mama. Aaron was the man. He was fun to watch go through this. I guess it's not easy being the dad. Then there was me, the proud grandma! It was one of the most AWESOME experiences in my whole life. I thought the love I had for my kids would never be close to any other love I ever could imagine---WRONG. This little pink bundle did me in. Honestly. I think I'm going to love this thing called grandparenting.

Below: Here she is just a few minutes old, she wants to go back in.


Again, here she is after they cleaned her up somewhat. She just is so laid back. In fact, she didn't really cry to hard so they were having to rough her up a little. I almost had to slap someone.


Below: I was trying to exercise her "guns" a little. She almost looked like she was smiling. Maybe she was.

Below: Here's the proud daddy. Aaron was sooooo happy that his little girl was finally here. He was floating on cloud nine.

Below: Here is Nana, the great-grandma. She's beaming.

Below: Here's the sweetest picture. Aaron is introducing the sisters. Candace was suppose to go back to her mom's house today. Thankfully she got to stay until her little sister was born. She just couldn't quit touching her. So precious.

Below: ANNNNNNNND HERE'S GRANDPA. I don't think we will be able to wipe off our smiles for awhile. So I hope you all just put up with us.

Below: How's this for a picture??? Here's Uncle Will meeting his little princess. He had to wear his Cowboy hat so Kayli would see that as her first logo of any team. I think it's called imprinting. The little darling will be watching Dallas games before too long. Will couldn't quit staring at her.

I got home tonight, Sunday, about 10:00 pm and wanted to put this on the blog for everyone to see how blessed this family is. I have not had any sleep since yesterday morning so I am going to try to go to sleep now. I can't keep looking at the pictures. And speaking of pictures, I will have some more for you tomorrow night with more news. They do get to come home tomorrow early afternoon. Maybe I can have a video of that for you all. I can try. NO ONE can ever look at a new little life and not see God's love for us. I will be going on my knees thanking my God for this day. Also for allowing my whole family to share it. where we were last year at this time, and look at us now.

THANK YOU, GOD, FOR YOUR WONDERFUL GIFT OF THIS PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL. MAY GOD POUR OUT HIS WISDOM TO ANGEL AND AARON SO THEY MAY RAISE HER IN HIS WORD. SO SHE WILL GROW UP IN A CHRISTIAN HOME AND BECOME A WOMEN OF FAITH AND CONVICTED OF GOD'S LOVE.

I want to thank all of you for your part in our lives.

Please feel free to leave Angel and Aaron comments on here. I will be sure to print them off for them to keep in Kayli's baby book.

GOD BLESS