Quick update

UPDATED:
Hi! It looks like Chris should be released from the hospital tomorrow (Thursday). He's doing well, and healing nicely. Thanks so everyone for the calls, prayers, thoughts, and cards. It's meant a lot to us.

Michelle


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Hello! Just a quick update on Chris since so many people have been asking:

He's doing pretty good! He is able to get out of bed already to stand or sit in a chair next to his bed, and he seems pretty comfortable (he has an epidural for the pain). I think he'll probably try to walk a little bit today or tomorrow. We expect him to be released between Monday and Wednesday of next week. Thanks for asking! It's great to hear from all of you.

Update on Chris

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Chris just got out of surgery and I talked to the doctor. The doctor said he was surprised at how diseased Chris's colon was and how he tolerated it for so long. He removed about 1/2 of Chris's large intestine. He said Chris's small intestine is pretty diseased, but they hope to control this with medicine.

Thanks for all thoughts and prayers. We love you all!


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It's 6:00 pm on Wednesday night and Chris is in surgery right now. He's expected to be in surgery from 2-4 hours, then about an hour in recovery. Say a prayer that they can fix what is wrong and that he has a speedy recovery. We can't wait to have him home! I'll update more when the surgery is over and I'm home.

Michelle

Thinking of Chris

Please think of Chris (and a prayer or two is nice!) for him this week. He's been hospitalized with Crohn's-related complications and will be having surgery later this week or early next week to resection his colon. Parts of his colon have gotten very narrow lately, so hopefully this surgery will be the help he needs.

Chris is in North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale and will likely be there for 10-14 days, depending on his recovery. I'll update as needed on what's going on.

In the meanwhile, he's currently in room 414, phone #: 763-257-8265.

North Memorial's address:
3300 Oakdale Avenue North, Robbinsdale, MN, 55422
(763) 520-5200 (main number)

I'm sure he'd love a card!

Feel free to call or email me if you need to: 763.416.0616, michellelncook@gmail.com.

Michelle

Ryan's First Communion

Ryan celebrated his 1st Communion on March 29 at St. Ansgars. I was blessed to be included and wanted to share these pictures with you all.

We went to Weiderholt's for dinner after church.

I hope everyone has a very blessed and peaceful Easter.

Love to you all,
Deb

We're prayin' while losing teeth on the beach

That just about covers what's been going on here.

Chesney lost her second tooth a few weeks ago. It has been loose since we were in MN for christmas, so its about time it fell out. Chesney was at rugby practice and came running off the field to show me her tooth sticking straight out and turned sideways. told her she would just have to pull it and low and behold she did it.
and that thing on her eye- Dr says its a stye. been there for 2 months and can't seem to get rid of it. any suggestions? tried antibiotics and warm packs- we really want to avoid having a dr poke it with a needle

we spent a day at Shelly beach- which is a great beach to go to with kids- it is tucked in and protected a bit from the ocean so there are no waves on the beach- great for the kids to play in- we also notices many scuba divers and snorklers around the rocks at the beach prompting duey to think of the great idea of giving me scuba diving lessons for my birthday. very excited to do it.



Logan-"I want a hat, I want a rubber band. I want this, I want that"
Me-"I want, I want, I want"
Logan-" Mommy- you can't say I want, only I can say I want."
cheeky little bugger

Logan is loving his preschool and loves having his own group of friends. He came home from school the other day and told me the prayer they say in his classroom before they have lunch,
Fold our hands and softly say,
Thank you for our food today.
Amen

Chesney has been showing her creative side lately- she is enjoying writing short stories and recently wrote her first song entitled "I love you air". She has also asked if she could take singing and guitar lessons so she can one day sing on the stage. So I am looking into that for her.

She has decided she was tired of saying our dinner prayer so she wrote a new one for us to say, it goes a little something like this:

I love you God, I love how you made the world, and I love how you made me. Amen

I for one am heading to the Hunter Valley wine region with three friends for the weekend to drink wine, eat cheese and chocolate and sit in a spa. Have a good weekend everyone.