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Coming Home! Update

Filed under: Health — steve at 6:29 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Hi Everyone
It is now Thursday afternoon and the good news is WE ARE COMING HOME!!  We leave tomorrow night at 10:00pm and arrive home Friday afternoon, around 2:00pm-ish.  For those interested, it is flight number SA280, so please pray for us for a safe journey. 
The plan is for us to all meet at the hospital with the doctor who will be travelling with us.  Heidi will then travel by ambulance to the airport with us following in a taxi.  She, the lucky duck, is going Business Class, so Mum, Dad and I will be in cattle class, trying to sneak forward like Elaine in Seinfeld!!  An ambulance will take Heidi straight to Charles Gairdner at the Perth end and we’re not sure what we will be doing as yet.
It has been an incredible feat to get this flight - once again God has blessed us greatly.  So many different people had to be contacted and bits and pieces organised - it was a headache for all ones with their fingers in the pie!
Dad and I have just left Heidi at the hospital - we’d gone to have lunch and when we came back Heidi had had her lines taken out of her neck!  She looks totally normal again - noone seeing her now would believe how very very sick she has been (and still is actually - now she is just ‘critical’ rather than ‘acute’).  We had to look at the photos I’d taken of her the day I arrived just to remember how awful she looked connected to all the machines in the ccu.  She has received a bit of physio and managed to walk to the bathroom and back to the bed this morning without having to hold onto anyone.
So, we will see you all soon.
Much love
Kellie

2 Comments »

Comment by Sares

20 06 2007 @ 6:38 pm

It is such wonderful news to hear Heidi is on her way home. Your daily updates have brought me to tears and I cannnot imagine the Heidi I know to be in any way shape or form the way you have described her and lived with her through this traumatic experience.
You are all in my thoughts and prayers and an inspiration to all for your love for each other, your strength and endurance.
Give Heidi all my love and tell I will be over for a balcony chat soon xx

Comment by drthrill

26 06 2007 @ 6:27 pm

Dear Heidi,
We have been praying for you every day. We are so glad in our hearts to hear that you are now in Perth, and we will continue to pray that you are strengthened every day more and more. We love you so much and it hurts us to be so far away.
It really has been great to read your family’s messages and to see the tangible ways God has been surrounding you all with his love and care.
Please let us know soon how you are going!
Love
Shelley, Rob, Tom and Luis

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