This blog post is probably a little strange because it starts off with a bunch of pictures I took with my nice camera and then a bunch of pictures from my phone. The thing is, I have a photography business, and some of the best advice I've gotten is to always be taking pictures and playing with your camera. And my easiest subjects to photograph (who I also never get tired of photographing) are Rose and Lucy. So, I don't really have a good place to share these pictures that I love except here in my "snapshots" blogposts.
October was quite the month. It was the beginning of sick season for us. And Ryan's little sister, Megan was in a horrible accident. It was also the beginning of shorter, darker days. All that combined, led to a very stressful few weeks for us. (Specifically, Megan's accident, but the other things didn't help.)
We got a text in the middle of the night the beginning of October saying that Megan had been in an accident, she had fallen off a moving vehicle and hit her head and was life flighted to the St. George hospital. Things looked really really bad for a few days. She was in a coma for over a week, and the doctors told Ryan and his family that she probably wasn't going to make it. And then, somehow, miraculously, she did. And since then (It's been 3 months now), she has made an amazing recovery. Her body figured something out and woke up after a week of being in a complete coma, she had machines breathing for her, and got a tracheotomy, and then slowly her body started doing everything it was supposed to. Ryan told me that normally, once people get tracheotomies, they will always have them, but Megan got hers out after only a few days of it being in and the hole has closed up now. She got to go home weeks (maybe months) sooner than any of the doctors expected her to be able to, and she's been doing speech and physical therapy several days a week since then. She's a miracle. I have to believe that God needs her here for something important, because there are so many things that happened just perfectly so that she could be here today, and still be mostly our same Megan.
You can imagine though the fear and stress and sadness that all of us experienced during that first week though. Ryan and all of his siblings went down to St. George to take turns sitting with Megan and I was supposed to be going up to Brigham City to spend the weekend with my grandparents and take pictures for my cousins before one of my cousins left on her mission. The day Ryan left to go down to St. George, Lucy came down with a fever that lasted for two days, and I was a wreck. Grannie and Papa told me I could come up anyway, even with Lucy being sick, and that made things easier for me, so I didn't have to be alone waiting for updates on Megan.
As Megan got better, we were able to enjoy the month better. We had fun preparing for Halloween and taking walks around our neighborhood so we could step on crunchy leaves. We spent a weekend with Ryan's dad and had a great time at our ward fall festival. We went to the pumpkin patch and the girls painted pumpkins and the adults carved pumpkins after they went to bed. And overall, the month ended up being a good one. But it definitely started off rough. I'm so grateful for miracles. We definitely have an appreciation for our families that we didn't quite have before.
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