Our gratitude for the kindness of strangers

Hope's First Bear

The bag of surprises never ended!!

ALL of these presents came from an unnamed generous person, ALL of them for Andrew, Sarah & Hope!!

Aunt Em FINALLY arrived in Indianapolis today and got to spend the entire afternoon with Hope. We will discuss Hope later, but right now, we need to take time to express our gratitude for the incredible acts of others.

Today, as Andrew & Sarah arrived at their McCrib (aka their room in the Ronald McDonald House) a GINORMOUS gift bag was waiting for them, left in their room by an unnamed source. This bag was FILLED, completely FILLED with amazing things for Andrew, Sarah & Hope. There were beanie babies, teddy bears, big stuff animals, small stuffed animals, books, toiletries, gift cards, phone cards, hats, bags, etc. It was AMAZING!!!

It really made us think about just how blessed we were growing up with the loving and generous family that we did, but also it brought us back to reality that the world IS full of good people out there. Every single day another stranger does something that may seem insignificant in their eyes but to Andrew & Sarah and the rest of our family, it is amazing and we cannot even begin to express our gratitude.

Update as of 5pm Tuesday

Thank you so much for your outpouring of love and support for Hope during this really rough time for her.

Hope will not be transferred to Riley in Indianapolis tonight. Her doctor feels she is stable enough to stay in South Bend till the morning, and the weather is not very cooperative for airlift, which would mean putting her on 3.5 hours worth of bad roads (which I personally disapprove of). Her status has not changed. They will do another x-ray series at 6am tomorrow morning to try and determine what is going on with her bowel, if it has died or if it is regrowing.

Andrew and Sarah have checked BACK into the Ronald McDonald Room so they will be staying there again tonight.

Please continue to pray for Hope as she continues to fight and for Andrew and Sarah as they try to figure out where to go from here.

(also, feel free to leave comments, prayers, thoughts, well wishes on here. We'd love to know who's out there praying for our Hope)