Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Road to recovery
Suzette is making an amazing recovery! She had another surgery on Sunday, and since then has been rapidly recovering. She is up and walking around, and has been moved from ICU to a regular hospital room. She is having regular visits with the baby. We are so happy to know that she is getting better and spending time with Eva!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Prayers
Don't know where to start. I seem to have that problem a lot...maybe I should blog more regularly!
We've now been at Steve and Suzette's, house sitting and dog sitting, for almost 3 weeks. We keep in regular contact with Steve since we are filling in for him as salespersons at Tierra Pacifica until he can get back. Tierra Pacifica is a development nearby, and Steve is the sales and marketing manager. Well, luck placed us in the right spot at the right time, and during the first week on the job, we (well, Tim mostly) managed to get a house and lot under contract! If all goes as planned and hoped, this will be the first money we've made since arriving in Costa Rica. We have been following up a couple of other leads since then and trying to occupy the sales office for something close to 40 hours per week. Since Steve's house is unsecure (no bars on the windows and lots of screened areas), one of us has to be home at 2 pm when the workers leave, and then the house has to be occupied at all times until the workers come back at 6 am. It's a bit of a juggling act and kind of sucks being tied to the house in the evenings, but we're happy to help out friends.
As you know from my last entry, Suzette started having contractions the weekend after Valentine's day. The doctor in San Jose wanted to keep the baby in the womb for as long as possible in order to allow her lungs to fully develop, so Suzette spent the next 2 1/2 weeks on medication to stop the contractions. On Tuesday of this week, her doctor said the baby was developed enough to deliver and they scheduled a C-section for Thursday morning. Eva was born at 1:00 pm and is perfect in every way. However, there were some complications afterward and Suzette lost a lot of blood, and also had a pulmonary embolism. She was in the OR for 3 hours and then moved to ICU, but in the middle of the night had to go back to surgery in order to stop more bleeding. She is stable today but in critical condition, and faces another operation on Sunday.
Tim left this morning to go to San Jose with our friends, Jarrod and Meagan, to do whatever they can to help Steve. Tim is great with Sean and Noah, and it will probably do them good to hang out with "Uncle TD" so Steve can get some rest and be with Suzette and Eva. Please keep the McKnight family in your thoughts and prayers; we are all waiting to hear some good news.
We've now been at Steve and Suzette's, house sitting and dog sitting, for almost 3 weeks. We keep in regular contact with Steve since we are filling in for him as salespersons at Tierra Pacifica until he can get back. Tierra Pacifica is a development nearby, and Steve is the sales and marketing manager. Well, luck placed us in the right spot at the right time, and during the first week on the job, we (well, Tim mostly) managed to get a house and lot under contract! If all goes as planned and hoped, this will be the first money we've made since arriving in Costa Rica. We have been following up a couple of other leads since then and trying to occupy the sales office for something close to 40 hours per week. Since Steve's house is unsecure (no bars on the windows and lots of screened areas), one of us has to be home at 2 pm when the workers leave, and then the house has to be occupied at all times until the workers come back at 6 am. It's a bit of a juggling act and kind of sucks being tied to the house in the evenings, but we're happy to help out friends.
As you know from my last entry, Suzette started having contractions the weekend after Valentine's day. The doctor in San Jose wanted to keep the baby in the womb for as long as possible in order to allow her lungs to fully develop, so Suzette spent the next 2 1/2 weeks on medication to stop the contractions. On Tuesday of this week, her doctor said the baby was developed enough to deliver and they scheduled a C-section for Thursday morning. Eva was born at 1:00 pm and is perfect in every way. However, there were some complications afterward and Suzette lost a lot of blood, and also had a pulmonary embolism. She was in the OR for 3 hours and then moved to ICU, but in the middle of the night had to go back to surgery in order to stop more bleeding. She is stable today but in critical condition, and faces another operation on Sunday.
Tim left this morning to go to San Jose with our friends, Jarrod and Meagan, to do whatever they can to help Steve. Tim is great with Sean and Noah, and it will probably do them good to hang out with "Uncle TD" so Steve can get some rest and be with Suzette and Eva. Please keep the McKnight family in your thoughts and prayers; we are all waiting to hear some good news.
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