Addison and family are not coming home from the hospital today, as I’d previously thought (and posted). The doctors believe she has severe acid reflux, which should be relatively simple to treat. Addison’s weight started dropping again when they took her off the IV, though, so she’s still at the hospital.

Baby Addison hasn’t been able to keep her food down for a few days now. She was getting dehydrated, so Don and Carrie took her to the hospital this afternoon. The doctor ruled out pyloric stenosis, but that’s as much as they know at this point.

I read about Brian and Katie and their little girl, Emily while Poppy and Pete were napping. And it took a good deal of self-restraint not to go wake them up and squeeze them both. It’s easy to forget some days what a blessing it is to have healthy children.

Emily has a cancerous tumor growing at the base of her brain. Despite her doctors’ expectations, she survived an initial surgery. Since they’re temporarily relocating for Emily’s care, the family is facing extra living costs on top of the medical expenses.

I can’t imagine going through what that family is facing.

If you’d like to help them out financially, you can do so here through PayPal. The family has also set up a trust fund at Bank of America. According to their friend’s site, “This means that you can walk into any Bank of America location and make an anonymous donation into the account for Emily Mandell.”