1999

Despite many doctors appointments, visits to the emergency room, a few prescriptions and tests, Emily still continued to cry her heart out every single day. 

 In May of '99 Ian we got some great news from Ian's cardiologist!  The hole in Ian's heart was just about closed and he would not need surgery after all!!  We were so relieved.  Ian also had his blocked tear duct repaired and he was now in tip-top-shape.

Morgan started preschool in August and enjoyed playing an angel in the Christmas play.  She also enjoyed playing outside in the backyard on the swings and playhouse.  Morgan loved to play with her babies (Em & Ian)  also had a lot of fun playing dress-up and house.  During the summertime, she loved to go to swimming lessons.  Most of all, Morgan loved to play with her stuffed animals, especially piggy, in her "tea party" decorated bedroom.

In October Emily had a very serious reaction to the MMR vaccine and she had no traceable platelets in her blood.  Not that she didn't already have enough health issues going on, she was treated by a hemotologist for a few months and received some IV treatments to help her body build up her platelet level.  Emily was still crying despite the fact that I had tried everything that I could think of to help her.