What a crazy time!

Hello all. I have had a crazy 3 weeks. About 3 weeks ago my neice called me at midnight crying wanting me to take her to the hospital. I got up and took her, turns out she was having a miscarriage. So sad. Then, after that she went for her check up and they sent her straight to the hospital because they thought she was still pregnant in her tubes, turns out it was a cyst in her tube the size of a grapefruit. The following Saturday Gene had to work 12 hours so me, Mom and Megan went to Western Sizzlin for dinner. Mom was walking Megan to the desert bar and she thought Megan was going to fall, she went to catch her and Mom fell. It was the most awful thing. My poor Mom lying there in that floor screaming. She broke her shoulder in 4 places. They did surgery the following Tuesday and he put a plate and 9 screws and she had 22 staples. Gene and I have been trying since that time to support 2 families! My neice that had the miscarriage and her husband are staying with Mom to help her and neither one of them has a job. WHEW! THEN.......I had to rush my neice that has lived with me for years to the ER night before last because we thought she had appendicitis. Now they think it's endometriosis! Poor Megan is probably beginning to think she has a singel Dad! We had to have Mom re-admitted Monday night because her blood count dropped too low and she needed a blood transfusion! She is home now and doing better!

I must say though, that we have walked through worse storms than this! In all this our sweet Megan is doing great!! She was a little sad when we told her our Florida vacation has been cancelled. Just cannot afford it after all this. BUT, hey, chin up, hu? God is getting us through yet another storm!! Let's just praise Him in the storm!!

Love to all!

The Madden's

Is anybody here???

I don't think anyone is reading this blog. Please leave me a comment if u do otherwise I am going to just stop writing here.

Tammy

So much going on..........

Good Saturday morning!! We have had SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much going on this week I really have not had time to stop and really post about Megan's week. She has just done AWSOME!! I am so so so so happy this year. God has truly answered prayers for this one. Megan had a great week! She was even mad last night when we told her there was no school today! She wanted her "Miss D", her parapro. She told me last night that she LOVES Miss "D" and "Wooldridge" (her teacher, she won't say Mrs. LOL! She is so happy. Miss D said she ate more yesterday then the two days that I sent her lunch (I let her eat in the cafeteria). She loved it! She probably liked doing what the other kids was doing. I am thinking about letting her start eating breakfast there since she does so good for Miss D. I was MORE than happy with her news story but I wish u all could have seen the whole story because they showed footage from when she was a baby and they had done a story on her. Well, MORE big news for her! The American Heart Association called yesterday and he said the USA today paper wants inspirational stories about heart walks and since Megan WALKED (with us just holding her hand) 1 and a half miles of the walk last year he is submittiing hers. The story that is chosen will be ran in November. I just pray her story gets picked! Can u see me smiling? I am just so darn proud of her!! Ok, another biggie! NO MORE PULL UPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Panties all day, even to school! She had one accident yesterday but has done great for the most part. Is my little girl growing up or what? I have to think about the song "Look what the Lord has done!!!" NO DOUBT!!!! I cannot type all of this without saying how much we love and cherish the Braswell family. They mean everything to us!! I know this is not funny but to me it's such a "normal" kid thing that I had to laugh last night. I noticed a small bruise on her belly (she bruises easy) and I said "Megan, what happend?" She told me Megan C pinched her. I kind of giggled thinking back to my childhood days and how me and my best friend would fight for 5 minutes and be BFF's again. Well, she said "NOT FUNNy! BAD BAD!" I was laughing so hard because she was actually experiencing NORMAL kid stuff!! Megan Carroll is a ray of sunshine in our home. She was the light at the end of the tunnel for us. She has brought so much love into Megan's life and I LOVE it that she feels comfortable enough to just treat Megan like any other child! Was I mad? HECK NO! Let them do the stuff kids do!!! Am I crazy? Maybe a little but Megan Carroll is one of the first that looked at Megan and didn't see a dissability. As a matter of fact her momma told me that she told Megan one day that Megan was different than her so she had to be careful with her and what did Megan C say? She said "I know Mom her hair is a different color!!" What a gal!!! Well, I better go but before I do I want to ask everyone to please pray for Kendall Mobley. He is having some pretty bad heart issues right now and I love him so much! His carepage name is KENDALLMOBLEy.

Well, I love u all!!

Tammy

Megan in the news!

They just came out and did the story on Megan. She was just a little pistol!!! I can't wait for it!!! It will be on channel 3 tonight either on the 5 or 6:00 news. She was not sure which one would air it. If you don't live around here I will e-mail you the website tonight!!
Thanks for loving her!!

Tammy, Gene & Megan

My baby's 1st day of 1st grade!

I am so proud!

Folks...............I am so excited I cannot contain my happiness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am overjoyed with the team that has Megan this year! She has the very BEST, teacher, parapro and case manager!!!! I just called to check on her and her parapro said when they went to art this morning the art teacher said that out of the whole class (this is a regular 1st grade class) MEGAN was the only one that understood how to do what she was telling them!!!!! I am bawling while I write this. I am just so happy. I have prayed so hard for this day to come. God is indeed so good!!!! I have to go. Can;t see to type for the tears in my eyes!! Feel free to pass this on!! Remember, this child was to be a vegtable the rest of her life!!! HA! God showed them!!!

Homecoming

We had Homecoming yesterday at our church and Megan Carroll came along. They had such fun together eating in the fllowship hall after church. I am just so proud of the child my Megan has become!! Later that evening she insisted on wearing her Daddy's shirt! I had to get a picture of THAT! She got mad when it was time to put her jammies on and take Dad's shirt off.

Well, we go tonight for open house at the school. I just cannot fathom in my mind Megan going into first grade but she is! I think I am really going to like her new case manager. He is an awsome man of God and is NOT afraid to let it be known. He said HE will pray for Megan to stay healthy this year. I was so glad to finally find someone in the school system that was not afraid to voice their faith in God. That made my day! I am going into it this year with a good outlook. I know God is working this out for us this year being that last year was just so bad for us. I will post pics Wednesday afternoon! I am excited for her to get started but also nervous. She just has so much potential to learn though and for that I am thankful to our Heavenly Father.

Well, enough chatting, I have lots to do!

Love to all!

Tammy

Megan needs walkers!!!!

Come on guys!!!!!!! Megan needs everyone to sign up to walk on her team!!!! Come on guys, SUPPORT HER!!! If she can go through a heart transplant at 14 months old surly you can join her team and walk with us in November!! She is the poster child this year for the Whitfield County American Heart Association!!! Just click on the link below and sign up to be on her team!!! Let's make a difference in heart problems and stroke.....remember Megan had BOTH!!

https://www.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=262771&lis=0&kntae262771=E18408FB5C4B4B5E8F649DFC7349F30B&supId=0&team=2802033&cj=Y

Tammy, Gene & Megan

So Friday was our anniversary and after working 22 days straight Gene took a vacation day to be with me and be here when the news crew came and what happened? We BOTH ended up with a terrrible stomach virus. So the news crew will be here on Tuesday now and I will update all of you on all that Tuesday. Gene took Megan to Mom's at 8:00 AM and we did not go get her until about 10:00 PM. That is the longest we have EVER been without her!! We slept most of the day. Then, about 1:00 this morning my neice (Tabitha's sister) called me just screaming and crying begging me to come and get her and take her to the hospital because she was bleeding severely. Turns out she was 3 months pregnant and having a miscarriage. Please pray for her. She is just beside herself because she always thought she could not get pregnant so this was very hard on her to find out she was finally pregnant and loosing it all in the same day. So, I guess I will get off here.

Love to all!

Tammy