1 year

8:32 Pm December 2, 2011

"Please keep my daddy in your thoughts tonight.We are at the er now. His lungs are full with liquids and They will be keeping him overnight. Just say a little Pray for us. love you daddy!!"

9:52 Pm December 2, 2011

"They are taken my daddy to uofu. He will be going to ICU. He is a strong man and will pull through this. Please please say a pray for my daddy. I love you daddy more then anything!!!"

I will remember December 2, 2011 like it was yesterday. That was the day that changed my families life forever..

 

"They had to do an other shock to his heart but his heart is still beating to fast. Blood pressure is really low again. Their is no blood flow to his finger they said he might lose them :-( its one step forward and two steps back! But we will get through this! We will I know we will!"

"‎"You are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy everyday. You'll never know daddy how much I love you!! PLEASE don't take my daddy away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

We need you daddy, fight hard and keep fighting this. You WILL get better. We are all here for you! And love you to the moon and back! Your our hero!!!!!!!!



I think back to that days, the weeks, and the months when everything was changing so fast. I look at my dad now and its amazing. My dad was gone.. I had the sickest feeling in the world knowing i was going to lose my dad. In my heart i know that he was gone, i believe he went on and the lord told him it wasn't his time. I believe my dad saw my grandmas, and grandpa. But it wasn't his time to go. He had more things to do here on earth.

I still have nightmares about those first few weeks in the hospital.  I still cry every now and then cause i think about that time. Its something you cant just forget. My dad was SICK, very sick. He was GREEN and BLACK. He was gone.


Those three months were the hardest months of my life. I was with my dad every step of the way. I would wake up get to the hospital about 10am and not leave till 8pm. I was with him through the GOOD and the BAD. I wouldn't of had it any other way. The Uof U become my home away from home. I could drive that drive with my eyes closed, and new every nook in the hospital.
My dad is my world and i couldn't think about life without him. You never know how fast life can be taken away from you till you are living it.

After three LONG months, 5 surgeries, and many sleepless nights we welcomed my dad back home. Our life has changed forever, but i love this life i have now then what i could of had.

3 months after my dad got out of the hospital i still was with him. I didn't have a job, and he couldn't drive to his doctor appointment. I remember the first week home we had at least 5 doctor appointment a DAY. Yes 5 a day. Then each months the appointment would get shorter and not so many. And now my dad doesn't have any appointments.

Now my dad is back to who he was before all this happened. He is still my crazy, loving, caring dad. Yes he might look a little different, and do things different, but all that matters is i have him to hug each day.


I cant believe its been a year. the months of December is hard. I keep thinking what i was doing at this time last year. Then i read back to my old facebook post and just cry.
Look at where he has came....

1 year and my dad is doing everything like before. Yes he might do them different and a little slower. But there is no stopping him.

Amazing!!!

My dad is my hero and always will be. I look up to him so much and he is my best friend. Over the last year we had gotten so close and i wouldn't change it for the world. He puts a smile on my face each day he text me just to say i love you baby. I know that I'm going to have my dad for a long time. His time on earth isn't close to being done. He just started a new amazing life.

Dad,
Thank you for fighting! Thank you for knowing how much we needed you. I know life can get hard, and there will be times where you wanna give up. But don't. Look where you have came in just a year. Driving, walking, running, going up and down the stairs, and just being the most amazing person in the world. Those are only SOME of the things you are doing. But know how much you mean to me. You are my best friend, the one i will always look up to, you are my hero.. I love you more then words can express. Just keep fighting this fight.  We as a family can get thought ANYTHING..

We can take on the world. One step at a time. :)