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A couple of errors to fix:  First of all, we apparently spell it "Pedialyte."  Thank you Cory and Google.  Secondly, one of our nurses that read this blog (apparently a lot do as we have had multiple say that read it) corrected something about an earlier post that said her PIC line goes up an artery when it actually goes up a vein.  Arteries are way too fickle to deal with as we have found out.  We also wanted to make an addition to a post a long time ago about our neurologist. We wanted to put that we were really impressed with his explanation and how nice he was.  We really liked him even though we had to wait, which he apologized for even though it didn't seem like it was his fault.  He also saw us in the hall another day and said hi and asked us how Karsie was doing, even though he didn't need to and he was obviously busy on his way to do something else.  It's the small things that win us over.  

A thousand thoughts:  Yesterday we decided to install a traffic counter at the bottom of the blog just for curiosity's sake.  We became curious when we had been told by numerous people that people that they know and other people that THEY know read the blog.  We're very humbled at what our little girl means to so many people, we just didn't know how much.  While we may take it off, we just wanted to share that in less than two days' time, we had over a thousand people visiting the site.  We know that this could be our family obsessively pressing refresh every day, but it still means that Karsie is being thought of a thousand times in two days, which we are so very thankful for.  This means during the course of all of this we have had tens of thousands of times you have all thought of her to go on the blog let alone just thinking about her throughout the day.  We don't even know what to say to that other than thank you and we are so blessed!  This is truly a captivating story that is unfolding, and she is our daughter!  We are very proud of her and very thankful for her support.  

Karsie's Patch:  As you can see it looks like four stitches ripped and maybe one or two more are getting ready to.  We realize you may not have ever seen this side of her, so you're probably shocked at how much skin she actually does have here.  None of it is new; it was like that right after surgery.  However, the gross "new" skin is new.  That was explained to us as the liver with a coat of granulation protecting it.  That is the stuff that her skin that grows under the patch will eventually become.  The green guacamole looking stuff is just secretion coming from the incision for the past week and a half.  It's normal, it's just gross.  We're praying the stitches hold for a while, but Dr. Saenz did say right after he put it on that some stitches would rip, but I'm not sure he meant this early.  Stay still Karsie.