Yipee!  Hurray!  Whoopee!  Elmo and I are coming home today!!!   We thought we would NEVER get back to home, and my toys, and my stuffed animal playmates, and my family and friends.  WOW!  And Mommy, Daddy, and Grammy are sooooo happy to be coming home too!  It has been 6 whole, long weeks!!!  We've missed everybody very, very much.  I finally got my staples out and I'm able to move around much better now.  They don't hurt anymore.  I was even sleeping on my tummy for the first time ever!  But now my tummy isn't doing so well and I will need your continued prayers.  Because I was so dehydrated and on IVs for so long, it has really, really shrunk.  So it's not absorbing what they are giving me now in my feeding tube and I'm not getting the nutrition that I should.  They are giving me much, much more to "eat" now, trying to force my tummy to stretch out again.  I really don't like it because what it has done is made my whole tummy area swell up like a "Budday belly"!  It really hurts and I can't sleep on my tummy anymore. The doctors say it will come back down slowly over time, but it's what they have to do to keep me from being malnourished.  Oh my gosh!  I just thought . . . I sure hope it happens by summertime before I get back into my bathing suit.  Daddy says I'm quite the bathing beauty, ya know.   I wouldn't want to disappoint him!

My family and I would also like me to take this time now to tell you something very special and important.  We are very, very blessed that I am still able to be with you all, and we give God all the praise and glory for the absolutely wonderful miracle He has given me.  We thank all of you for your prayers, your love, your genuine concern and caring, and your financial offerings that have made it all possible.  Only God can thank you enough for me for all you've done - and some of it I probably will never know about.  I ask Him with all my heart to return your blessings for me back into your lives a hundredfold.  May you be greatly and richly rewarded for your love to me and to my family.

Much love and much gratefulness to you all,

Your Maggie