We are home from CA / Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Our flight was very late last night. We didn't get home till around 12am and after Lizzy's nightly treatment routine it was 1:30am before I even got her to sleep. She still had 100ccs left in her bag when she woke up today so I let her sleep in till around 10am this morning.

The trip was the best ever as far as flight and arrangements on our stay. We went site seeing with Molly, Andy(Andrea Doebbert's aunt and uncle) , Jennifer , Jacob and Todd Goodson. We went to Pier 39 where the seal lions have made a home after the earth quake. Took pics of Alcatraz,(could see from the pier) The Blue Angels were practicing and we got to see them. (Lizzy hated the loud noise) I almost peed myself a few times watching them coming so close to hitting each other. Lizzy and I took off though when she said the noise was hurting her ears. We went to park that the Canadian geese that migrated their after the park was complete and have not returned home.
We saw San Francisco down town and their very cool houses , the Golden Gate bridge park and the Pacific ocean.
It was truly a great trip. Lizzy was something....... LOL . The night we got there it was late. I did her treatment as usual and she was doing so great. Well I got woke up from her alarming at 140 heart rate. So, I asked her" if she was sick"and she said "Lady.... I am NOT SICK!! I just want to know what is in the package up there " I said huh? and looked up where she was looking and Molly had a birthday present for her that she had not given her in a pretty package on top of a antique bureau . LOL. I laughed so hard. She finally told me she was pooping. That was the cause of her high heart rate was high.

The visit with DR. Wang went excellent and he is totally shocked as everyone how well Lizzy is doing. He said he leg movement thing she does is like something out of a ballet. Lizzy has gained more weight again and looks totally great. He spent most of his time with Lizzy and he didn't not talk much to us. He shook our hands and said she is doing just excellent and was so awed at Lizzy's movement, talking and just Lizzy in general.
I guess the media people tried to call us and told Virginia (coordinator for Wang) and told her Channel 11 news was supposed to be there. Because something had come up they canceled. We had no clue they were even thinking about doing that. Thank God we didn't have too!!! They can wait till I lose some more weight . ( I hate surprises like that) Robert Dicks the media person from Stanford came in and saw Lizzy and took pics of Lizzy and her favorite nurse for the year end report for Stanford. Robert told us Lizzy was just one the most beautiful children he had ever met. That made us feel good ans Lizzy looked at him and you could see the sparkle in his eyes. DR. Wang sent two residents in to LEARN about SMA so they got a quick detailed report from us on Type 1s and they need to understand SMA. NIV,AA diet (and breast milk) and how to help these kids stay strong by stretching etc. They loved Lizzy also.

The trip home was great except for the late flight last night

Molly and Andy made the trip so special. We stayed with them this time. Very Intelligent warm compassionate , heart warming people. They are like family to us. Their home is just beautiful.

We have to go back in March not sure when. That was something that we didn't not compromise on. No way we are flying during RSV season. We are always now taking the later cheaper flight and staying that extra day. Worked out great.
American Airlines were very accommodating on the the trip there and some of them were on the trip home. We do pretty well traveling with all 6 of Lizzy's machines.
Now just got to figure how we are going to get out there in March.