Tag: Ruby Grace

Piles, Piles and Pizza

Linny Saunders27 Comments

This mama has a head ache.   I rarely, rarely, rarely have a headache… but I think it’s from lack of sleep. Miss Ruby is home.   She perked right up when we got here. I’m thinkin’ she was missin’ those sibs really, really bad. In fact I think that if I could read the…

Movin’ On Up…

Linny Saunders23 Comments

Miss Ruby is sleeping and we will be moving  to a room on the floor before long. The neurologist has come in to talk to us.   Her two very lengthy seizures are cause for serious concern.   They will send us home from the hospital with medicine  that can be administered immediately  should this…

Transferred

Linny Saunders34 Comments

Thank you for praying sweet friends. There is no doubt that this is a real battle. As you know, I posted a precious video of little Miss Ruby Grace yesterday evening.  She has been doing wonderful. Today she woke up at 3am for a bottle and was doing great, snuggling with mommy and drinking her…

Never Once

Linny Saunders20 Comments

We left our home this morning at about 3:30am to take  Emma and Dw to the airport. Sure is sweet to live in a major city with a major airport.   Pretty amazing actually. You know sleeping just doesn’t really happen in the ICU  or in the hospital for that matter. This mama is pretty…

Our Favorite Word

Linny Saunders45 Comments

H.O.M.E. Changing the pressure in the font has our little Ruby  back to her squealing, smiling, bouncy self. Thank you for all your heartfelt prayers. Dw and Emma and team leave in the  wee hours of tomorrow for Uganda. So thankful to be together as a family tonight,  with Ruby right here with us all….

Sweet Feet

Linny Saunders29 Comments

We cannot thank all of you enough for praying for Ruby. There is no doubt that the medical staff here at Phoenix Children’s took her situation very seriously! We were moved last night up to the Intensive Care unit. One of Dr. S’s partners tapped Ruby’s shunt to check the fluid. Within about 20 minutes…

From the Emergency Room

Linny Saunders96 Comments

I didn’t tell anyone but this past week we brought Ruby to the Emergency Room.  She had been far too lethargic and sleepy.  They ran a huge battery of tests and said that they couldn’t find anything. We limped through the week.   She did not want to eat, sleeping far too long….not much interaction….

And They Jumped to Their Feet

Linny Saunders28 Comments

Many of you were praying for us Monday evening  as Dw and I had the unbelievable privilege of sharing a brief snippet about our new ministry International Voice of the Orphan. Our new church, Phoenix First, has hosted this  Pastor’s Conference for 35 years and  pastors come from all over the world. There are many…

All By Herself…

Linny Saunders32 Comments

Look who’s just starting to hold  her bottle all by herself! Oh yes she is! Baby steps for this precious one…. and an entire crowd  {around the world} cheering her on… I would imagine Ruby would tell her friends  {if she could}…. “I took a hold of my bottle the other day and all of…