This is our Make-A-Wish family photo!
Tommy is getting a wish from the Make-A-Wish foundation. I am so excited for him. After all he went through with his illness, he totally deserves it. The poor child lost 7 1/2 months of his life! But in reality, he doesn't remember any of those 7 1/2 months so its really Jason and I that deserve this wish. And really we are getting one of our wishes granted too. We are getting to see our now healthy son and taking the family on a much needed, much desired family vacation. We never figured on being able to afford to take this kind of a vacation for at least quite a few more years. But thanks to Make-A-Wish we are going to DisneyWorld, SeaWorld, and Universal Studios in September. We are so excited. I just wish other people could be as excited for us. I have had about 3 of my friends talk about how jealous they are that Tommy has gotten so much attention. I just can't understand how they could be jealous of all that we had to go through to get that attention. We would trade all the attention, support, kindness, presents, etc. for our son to have never been sick. My goodness the kid sto
pped breathing 4 times! And he was in a sort of vegetative state for 7 months! What is there to be jealous of???? This is how he looked during his illness... this sweet little boy with all these tubes in both of his arms and wires attached to his head (he looked like he had brain surgery but he really had EEG leads on under the cap). Our whole life was thrown upside down by this serious illness. And the doctors don't even know what the illness is!!! Can you imagine that? We didn't even know if he would recover or not. But thankfully he did and has made almost a full recovery. There are a few kinks in his 
system to be worked out but intense weekly therapy is taking care of that! Look at him now! He is enjoying life as a healthy 7 year old! We finally got to give him a birthday party in July (his birthday was in March) and all his friends came to celebrate with him! It was wonderful! And now he is getting all of his childhood dreams to come true. He gets to see DisneyWorld, he gets to go to Build-A-Bear Workshop, he gets to go to a Mariners Game (we just got a phone call from them today and they are sending 20 tickets to Tommy and his guests of choice to go a game), he is hopefully getting the Nintendo DS he wants so badly, and much more....I just don't understand how anyone can be jealous of a 7 year old who was very close to death! And these people are adults! Oh the pettiness of some people. Enough ranting for one night. You know I kind of like this blog thingy where I can just rant and rave and who cares if it's read or not!
