Life as we know it

We are headed home after lots of driving to and from Denver and seing lots of the best doctors for Zoie . This was a very long awaited appt with the feeding clinic at Children's A, that included a speech therapist, dentist, GIVE doctor, regular doctor, OT therapist, .... and probably some more that I am forgetting. What a fantastic team though! Yesterday we went down all afternoon for a conference and swallow study. I am so proud at how well Zoie did eating in front of four doctors, a huge machine, while watching daddy, perched up on a very high carpet all while mommy fed her. She chewed, swallowed, and drank lots of fluid. Praising God a million times right now because the doctors saw no form of aspiration, saw no choking, and internally, Zoie was perfect! No need for surgery, and absolutely for now, no reason to not keep feeding her. This morning we sat down and went over all these results and what we can now move forward with. As we sat down, the first thing out of the doct

I am that girl who has to watch the Bachelor/Bachelorette every season, and no I don't get sick of it ;)  My husband probably does.  He is a good sport though, so every season, it's wine and tv on Mondays at the Cissell's.  This last season, a guy named Drew had a sister who was severely disabled and she was actually part of one of the shows.  As the dad of Drew and the sister was talking to the Bachelorette, he asked her if she believed in angels.  She replied, "well, yeah."  He then asked if she had ever seen one.  Anyways, where I am going with this, is that the dad of the special needs girl was under the full impression, and no one was going to change his mind, that she was an angel put here on Earth to change many people's lives.  As Derik and I watched this episode, we just shook our heads and had tears coming down our faces.  Special needs kiddos/adults are angels.  You don't have to believe Derik or I, or this girl's dad, but if you walked for