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Well, we were able to come home on Monday afternoon late from Children’s Hospital ICU.  Natalie has pneumonia again, but this time they think that she became hypoxic from it overnight causing her to not want to wake up and start this whole scare.

Natalie is doing ok so far at home, but she is on oxygen and we are keeping an eye on her vitals, mostly her oxygen saturation readings.  She is coughing a lot and clearing her lungs some, but it seems like it takes forever for her to get feeling better.

We would like to thank everyone for their prayers and emails of support for us, not only through this site, but my (elliott’s) other sites as well.  The blogging community is great!

Natalie is sleeping a lot now, but

Well, it has been awhile since I posted an update.  Almost 3 months.  It was because ”life was good” and Natalie was doing really well.

However, as things can change on a moments notice with a special needs child, today things changed.

Natalie came home from school asleep yesterday (Friday) and we didn’t think much of it as sometimes it wears her out and she is just wiped out and tired.  But this morning, she wouldn’t wake up.  And of course, I was out of town at a Fire Department conference to make matters a little more stressful.  All I can say is I am glad that there were no police running radar and my car held together to get home!

Natalie was unresponsive this morning (Saturday) and after checking with the doctors