I'm sorry

So, first let me apologize for not updating until now. We have been at the new house most of the time cleaning and unpacking and haven't had my computer nor have I been at the hospital.


Let's see...where do you want me to start...Since Friday...Hunter has made great improvements. They moved him to regular Peds on Monday. He was a very busy boy the last couple of days. Sunday, Beth and her 2 boys and Lance and Megan and their 3 boys where here, yesterday Uncle Stevie(Rich's brother) came and ate lunch with him...he hasn't lacked for attention. Today, I made him get up and walk around...so Rich and I took him to the play room and he played for a while. He still gets tired very easily...he was ready to go back to his room and he has never asked to do that, so i know that he is still in pain and is really tired if he is asking if he can stop playing.


We put a huge dent in the move. We just have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much stuff! If anyone wants to help...by all means...I won't say no!! We have alot of work to do before we will be done. I am excited...it is starting to look like OUR house!!


I am so tired, can't really think of anything else to say. If you have questions, please ask!


Thanks for praying and to my family...thanks for pulling together for us. Rich and I appreciate it more than you know!

Hunter update

I couldn't get my computer to work yesterday, so that is why I couldn't update...he had a horrible day yesterday. He had a fever most of the day yesterday and was in a lot of pain. Today his color looks really good, his heart rate has come down a ton, his labs have come back very good. I am hoping that today Dr. Smith will order for his foley catheter to come out as well as his NG tube(it is in his stomach pumping it out). Once that is out of his stomach, he can start drinking and eating. He looks like he finally feels better.

I am doing ok...getting worn out. We are moving all of Rich's stuff this weekend, so I will be going home on Saturday and finish packing my stuff. Mom has been working at it all week...Thanks mom, you are the best!!

We are so excited. We are getting married in 15 days. I can't believe that it is almost here...WOW!! I am so excited! Whenever Hunter is in the hospital, I stay at his mom's house and it is nice to get to see him everyday. The girls are so excited to be moving...alot of drama at the house and they are ready for some peace and quiet!! I am too...


Thank you so much for praying for him. I am hoping that this will cure a bunch of things for Hunter...weight, blockages...just a bunch of things!

Just keep swiming, just keep swimming...

My poor baby

Yesterday, I tried to give Hunter his enema and didn't get any results and he was screaming. I called Dr. Smith and asked him to see him cuz I thought that he might just have a bowel obstruction, so he saw him at 1:45. He did a direct admit to Lutheran for x-rays and dehydration. The xray came back that his colon was perforated(had a hole in it), so the nurse, which I have to say is the best nurse here...Corrie...she is always his nurse here, came in and told me that Dr. Smith was on his way over to do surgery. Of course my first thought that I said out loud was, "Does that poor man ever get a break? Is the child already here that he is going to be working on?" WELL DUH DANIELLE!!! SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT HUNTER!! He came in and told me that he didn't know where it was or how bad it was, but that he could just tell that it was perforated. After the surgery, he came out and said that it was nothing that I could have avoided or done. His large intestine had wrapped around the new appliance that Dr. Levitt in Cincy had put in to do his enema's and it was so kinked that it ripped. So they took him in he said that it was ginormous...it was about 9 inches in diameter and it was dead, so he took out about 9 inches of Hunter's colon, and placed a colostomy bag. He had this when he was first born but there is the possibility that this one could be permanent. It will possibly help him gain weight, so that is a plus. He won't have to sit on the toilet for over an hour for an enema...this is a good thing. His color is so much better today.


One of my parents pastor, Butch, and one of our pastors and his wife, Mark and Renita, came up last night which was a very pleasant surprise. Hunter is so loved.

Please continue to pray for him. I know that you will!

This weekend

So, Beth and Sue had my bridal shower this weekend and it was great! We got a ton of great stuff. I was so stocked about everything I got. Thanks to everyone that came and for all of the great gifts. I guess I will be doing a bunch of cooking this winter!!


So I will be packing all of my things this week and start the long move to grandma's house aka our house! I am super excited to get in down there, but dreading the packing part. The worst part for me will be going through ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of Hunter's toys trying to figure out what will stay here and what we will take and what we will give away!! Between him and the girls, we could open our own toy store. I do have to say for the girls...they have already gone through their stuff and got rid of a bunch of stuff!! I am very proud of them!

We will then be packing up Rich and moving him on Saturday. All of his stuff will be here, although he won't be living there till we get back from the honeymoon!! I am super stoked though. We only have 19 more days!! I can't wait!! It will just be nice to not have to wait 5 days to see him anymore...I can go to sleep seeing him and wake up seeing him.

My poor baby though, last night we were playing tennis with mom and dad and Ric and Sue and he was showboating just a little bit to Ric and my poor sweetheart sprained his ankle. Ric laughed at that for a while. I felt bad for him, so I took care of him when we got home. I miss him already and he has only been gone for about 4 hours!!

So, I really don't have anything else to talk about except this is going to be a crazy week! Please pray for us that I don't lose my sanity!

Sorry for not updating

So, I know that I haven't been very good about doing this, so today I am going to update everything that I can.

2 days ago Hunter had an outpatient surgery to dialate his rectum. When I took him to Cincy for this June surgery, Dr. Levitt was working on his rectum and made it too small, so we had been trying to reopen in, but it wasn't working like it should have, so Dr. Smith did it under anesthesia. We will have to do it for about 2 weeks and then hopefully never again. He is doing very well with it though. He obviously hates the actual dialation, but his enema went awesome last night.

I am having a pretty rough day. I am miss grandpa Hose pretty badly today. I really don't know why, but I am. Mom and I helped grandma pack the upstairs yesterday and I saw stuff that was his and a couple of things that reminded me of him and I didn't think that it would affect me the way that it has. It will be 3 years this October 15th. I always thought that he would be at my wedding and he won't be, Hunter and the girls will never know him, just a lot of emotions right now and I don't know why. Maybe it is time for mother nature to come visit, but I am very emotional today.

We only have 29 days left before the wedding and am starting to feel overwhelmed already. Did a count yesterday and we have 140 people coming. I was only expecting 130, so 10-20 more people is a little crazy for me.


Just please pray. This is a huge transition for myself and my family.

The Big Day

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I am trying

Well, since people get on me for not updating my blog, I am going to do it today! I am working for mom and dad since they have classes to take in Fort Wayne, so I am at the office all by my lonesome with nothing to do.

Hunter is doing fairly well. We are having some issues with his bowels and lots with his rectum. He had his rectum repaired in June in Cincy and it had begun to close, so we are having to do anal dialation which just means that we are taking a metal rod and sticking it up his bottom to open it back up, which as you can imagine is very uncomfertable. It causes him to bleed and pretty much he HATES IT! I am taking him back to the doctor in about a week and a half to have him look at it again and if it isn't going as well as it should, then they are going to have to do an anoplasty which is a surgery to open his rectum back up. As much as I would hate to have him go through surgery #18, I don't want him to go through 6 weeks of painful dialation either. I am putting it in God's hands, cuz he knows better than I!

Yesterday was the last day to swim at the pool for the summer and EVERYBODY WAS THERE, except the girls and we missed them terribly. We had a great time and I look forward to our kids having their parties there like I did as a kid. For the most part, all the kids got along! No real problems. Hunter kept saying all day...I love my boys mommy!!

Well, I believe that Rich and I have everything together for the wedding. We finally got a photographer and that was pretty much the last thing that we needed to get around. His sister in law, Jade, is prego and in a lot of pain and is due around the wedding, so please pray for her. She has a kidney stone and the stent that they put in isn't working very well, so as you can imagine feels like she is dying some of the time.

I promised my girlfriend Karla that I would do my best to post pics on here of the girls and Hunter and Rich and I, and I am going to do it just please bear with me!!

Love you all,

The Cummins Clan