Emily’s Smiles through Difficult Trials

MIC KEY MOUSE –MICKEY MOUSE–MICKEY MOUSE
Are you singing with us??? Yeah Mickey! Minnie, Aladdin and of course ALL the Disney Princess’ too. Emily, Trey, Mommy & Daddy are off to Florida to visit Walt Disney World, compliments of the Make a Wish Foundation. Thursday at Duke, Emily was smiling and glad to get the ok from Dr. G to pack her bags and go to Disney. The limo picks us up on Sunday after lunch bound for the Wilmington airport. Limo & VIP service all the way there and back! What a wonderful program granting Miracle Wishes to children. Emily is a very excited little girl and so is brother Trey!
She is so excited tonight (Friday) as two Make-a-Wish granters, Mr. Nat Smith & Mr. Dana Emery, came to see her to finalize the trip on Sunday. They brought a celebration cake, balloons, and other goodies to use for her trip. She even has cameras to take her own pictures. Grandaddy, Nana, Granny Mom & Paw Paw came for the celebration and a few neighborhood friends and family came to see what all the activity was about. Emily had everyone’s attention and the wish granters thought the whole gang was going to Disney with us!! That was funny!! With the info we reviewed, looks like we will have a blast and come home with many great memories and lots of pictures. A great hospital nearby, Dr. G said, that would take good care of her, so no worries. Emily had a smile on her face all afternoon waiting for the wish granters to visit her. Trey is so excited to be flying on a plane. We have a movie to watch tommorrow about Disney and the different parks so Emily can start deciding where she would like to go first. A Limo will be taking us to and from the airports. Emily said, “like we did in N.Y. mommy” but that was called a taxi we rode so fast in through N.Y. She liked how crazy and fast they drove there!

Stephanie took some pictures tonight and down loaded some I have had for a while to share the past 3 months (she said give her a couple of days to get posted!). The week before Thanksgiving and through Christmas we have made several trips to Duke for platelets and labs and meds etc. Sorry for the length of time with the updates, now that we are home, the normal day to day tasks keep me from sitting down. I’m definitely not going to complain because we are so happy to be back home with Trey & Eddie!!!

When we go to Duke we go by and visit at the apartments if we are not late leaving the hospital. Santa even visited Mr. Tom! He always has to get a kiss on top of Emily’s head, and give her cookies to take back home. She is using her walker more this week and trying to keep her legs working. This has been the best week in a long time. She will start back on her meds tommorrow and through the next couple of weeks. We hope this will not set her back to much for this week. She is eating better and this gives her more energy to want to try and walk around. She has been packing all week and when she is not looking I have to put some things back. Tommorrow her entire room will be full of bags with things from around the house. I looked in some today, she has bandaids, floss, nailclippers, nailpolish, hairbrush, toothbrush, bath toys, soap, toothbrush. That is just bathroom items! She has bags and bags of crafts, books, crayons, markers you name it. It is so good to see her smiling and not thinking of the things she can’t do.

While Eddie & I were going over the itinerary with the wish granters, Emily was entertained by Audrea, Heather, Donna & Aunt Stephie. Those “big girl” Emily’s Encouragers were in the floor with Emily in her bedroom and had Mallory and Madison taking funny pics of them with Emily. I understand that Granny Mom was able to get a few good pics of all of them and Jordan too! Secretly I think they were trying to figure how to pack themselves in Emily’s bags to go with her to Disney!

We thank our wish granters for their time and making this Disney trip happen so quickly for Emily. This will be Trey’s first visit as well, so he will have non stop fun. Thank you again for your messages. Emily likes to see “her mail”. I feel God has given Emily this extra strength and healing these past two weeks for her to make this trip and to have fun, fun, fun. We feel your prayers.

Love, Eddie, Dawn, Trey and Emily

“What we remember from childhood, we remember forever!” — Cynthia Ozick