Naomi & George Update

We've recently been in contact with my sister Naomi. I'm still a little in disbelief. We've all somewhat mourned over her in one way or another over the past several years, not knowing if she was alive or not - and now she's back in our lives. It's hard to know what's next. We'd all love to actually see her, to hug her, to cry with her, to yell at her, for Esperanza & Roman to meet her, to kick the crap out of her for putting us through such grief...but things are complicated. We're all thankful to know she's still with us, and thats all that really matters at this point. She contacted my mom the day after Mothers Day and has been catching up with all of us ever since. My blog post awhile back had nothing to do with her contacting us, it was George. She had a feeling something wasn't right and felt compelled to check in.


George's health has been really, really bad for about a year (well, since Vietnam to be excact). For those of you who don't know, he has liver failer, Hep C, he's on dailysis 3 days a week b/c he has no kidney function, he has diabetes, he's had at least one heart attack and one really bad stroke, he has epilepsy (though the stroke seems to have reversed that), and the list goes on. Over the past month things have gotten even worse. After a bad nose bleed followed by him being given blood he shouldn't have been given at the hospital, he was in and out of ICU for a few weeks. The last time he went in he was put on a ventilator and feeding tube and was sedated. He was out for a week. It was scary. We weren't sure if he was going to pull through it or not. Then last Thursday he woke up. I got to the hospital a few minutes before my mom did. He made eye contact with me and struggled to say something but the tube in his throat prevented that. Through tears, I told him Naomi was okay. His eyes widened and he raised his eyebrows! A response! A miracle (two miracles in one week). They took out the tubes that same day and he's recovering quickly. Things are looking up.

Please keep George and my sister Naomi in your thoughts and prayers.