Chris Cook

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Happy Halloween & Back from PICU

The Halloween candy has been passed out and the porch light is off. It was the perfect kind of year for trick-or-treaters – just enough to take most of the candy and leave a little behind. Julia is resting comfortably on Jocelyn and we’ve decided that she likes sleeping on her belly the best (ed. […]

Detours Happen

It was going to be a routine (routine? really?) consult with Dr. Weinhouse today. A quick visit to confirm what thought we already knew: that she was growing, the diuretics were working and we were staying the course. Forget that we had sneaking suspicions that her breathing was faster and more labored. Jocelyn and I […]

Visits – Docs and Family

A lot has happened over the last week, the most exciting of which is that we really feel like we got our team to do Julia’s surgery. We met last Thursday with Dr. Henry Walters, the Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. We felt utterly taken aback by his humility and […]

Thus Far…

The weather has given way to wind and rain tonight, and I’m listening to Jocelyn singing “You Are My Sunshine” to Julia up in the nursery. The house is quiet after the flurry of activity that comes with trash night and a run to Target and I’m thinking back to where I was a month […]

G’bye Grandma

After eighteen days of tireless service, we said goodbye to Grandma Nancy today. She needed to get back to Corpus Christi where her students and community await. Taking such an extended time off to be with her daughter was quite a sacrifice, considering the workload that Nancy takes on in her professional and personal life. […]

Saturday Morning with the Maloneys

Spent a marvelous Saturday morning with some dear friends of mine. I knew Bob and Ann before they were married and watched as they met, courted and finally got married. They asked me to take some shots of them and the two girls the adopted and I simply couldn’t say no.

Whatta Week…

I’m sitting next to my wife with the baby in her arms after a pretty tiring day. After a week’s blur of doctor’s appointments, trips to the pharmacy and paging through volumes of insurance forms, we are really feeling the fatigue. Julia has had a lively day where she stayed awake almost the whole morning […]

Little Bag O’ Sugar

A variant on the old Sesame Street tune: One of these things is just like the other! We have had some real encouragement over the last 24 hours. The visit with the hematologist yesterday went very well. Dr. Jamil has been watching Julia’s platelet condition over the past couple of weeks (you can read the […]

A Special Visit and a Loud Holler!

Happy 10-10-10 people! Julia’s actual due date (the day before) came and went with little fanfare, and she is continuing to feed and grow well, albeit a little slowly. We are hoping that now that her feeding schedule has turned to a more on-demand cadence, her weight gain will be more robust. We are also […]