CODY'S FIGHT

We are loving this life with our favorite girl!  Co has been struggling with his symptoms again and we will likely be headed back north soon. For now, we will soak up our first holiday season with a beautiful baby girl!

  Hey, everyone! It’s be a crazy couple of weeks since our last update. Co finished up his two weeks of IV antibiotics here at home and had his PICC line removed on Friday. He’s had some breakthrough fevers even on the IV antibiotics, but his labs are trending in the right direction. We spoke with Mayo and they want to try one more course of antibiotics, pills this time (yay!) before having Co head up there for further evaluations. We are hopeful that this last round of meds with nip this infection in the bud! Thank you for all of the prayers, texts, calls, food deliveries, hugs, and we’ll wishes. It has not been an easy month juggling everything, but as he slowly gets better, we are starting to see the light at the end of this tunnel. Big hugs and all our love, Cody, Madee, and AK

  Hey there, Cody’s Fighters! It’s been a hot minute since we’ve had something update-worthy to relay in regard to Cody’s health, for which we are grateful! However, this past month has proven to be a challenge for Co as he’s had two hospital stays over the past three weeks. A few weeks ago, Co started feeling crummy and spiked a 104+ fever one night after work. We went to the ED and after a quick ICU stay for low blood pressure and sepsis, he was downgraded to IMCU for IV antibiotics and monitoring. It was determined that he had an infection in his blood that spilled over from an infection within the bile ducts. After a four-day stay, he was discharged home with a PICC line and IV antibiotics. He was doing well and feeling better until this past Tuesday when he spiked a 102+ fever. Back to the ED we went for further labs/cultures, imaging, and monitoring. His cultures came back negative, so the antibiotics did their job. However, his liver remains rather unhappy and he still feels...

    Three years since the big surgery and being considered cancer free! Forever grateful for our team at Mayo, Dr. Smoot, and Co’s sense of pure grit. Cheers to 3 years of remission and a lifetime of happy livers and Addie Kate snuggles!

  Happy birthday to our favorite fighter! Thirty-three and fatherhood look good on you. We love you and hope you have a great day!

  Addie Kate Childress - March 9, 2022 - 2130 - 7lbs, 14oz - 19.5in - Our sweet girl made her appearance one week ago and we couldn’t be more in love. If you had told us three years ago this would be our future, we wouldn’t have believed you. She has surpassed our wildest dreams. We were together. I forget the rest. -Walt Whitman

No health update, I just wanted to share my new favorite photographs. We cannot wait to meet you, sweet baby girl!