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The Lihn Family: Live it Happy
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Sunday, April 20, 2014. One thing I've often heard, from some wise cardiac practitioners, is: "Families whose HLHS child is doing well, are not sharing their journeys online - they're busy living their lives." I always thought, "yeah, that's probably true.". Well, it must be true. My last blog update was in January! We've certainly been busy living our lives. Jozie (North Dakota) and Zoe. Zoe, Will (Iowa), and Emmy. Papa and Emmy play badminton. How could w...
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The Lihn Family: November 2012
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Sunday, November 18, 2012. Hope in a Dewar. Less than 3 years later, we're already seeing progress with HLHS and stem cell research. Thankfully, before the tour, we were able to get photographs of the girls in front of their "dewars" which stores their cord blood/tissue. Emmy and Zoe sitting in front of Zoe's cord blood dewar. The girls, doing a bit of filming for CBR. Faux excitement about stem cells. Family photo in front of Zoe's cord tissue dewar. At th...
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The Lihn Family: June 2013
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. For the past few months, we've been keeping ourselves busy. A trip to Disneyland, birthday parties, Children's Museum, soccer practice, mom and dad trips out of town for business, Emmy's summer school. Since I started drafting a blog about our Disney trip last month and never got around to finishing it, I'll just throw up some pictures and you can see how much fun the girls had yourself, without me boring you with narratives. Fifteen...
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The Lihn Family: The Normal Life
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Friday, June 19, 2015. I visited our blog today (to find a link for a new HLHS family) and couldn't believe my last post was over a year ago! Whoopsies, my bad. The past year flew by and I'm happy to report that all is well. And Normal. Zoe started and finished pre-Kindergarten - which was way more difficult for mom than Zoe! She loved it, and ended the school year with not one, but two, boyfriends. 65279;. Zoe and Ryder (aka Batman and Batgirl). And bra...
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The Lihn Family: Home, Sweet, Home
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Thursday, August 29, 2013. Home, Sweet, Home. Even though we've been home for 5 days already, we're still unwinding. The emotional upload that occurs before a surgical trip takes a while to download from. This picture pretty much sums it up. During her echo, Zoe asked if she could see her heart smile again. The echo tech was super confused :) When the tech showed me her Fontan, she said, "wow, who did her surgery? Zoe is due back for another cardiac visit i...
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The Lihn Family: Our Fontan Success Story
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Saturday, September 14, 2013. Our Fontan Success Story. Zoe rocked the Fontan. Period. Immediate extubation without consequence, great pain management (off all pain medication day 5, including Tylenol), walking less than 24 hours post open heart surgery. With such great results and speedy recovery, I've been asked a few times, "what's your secret? The answers received helped mold our plan of action. Has Reiki Masters on staff, within their cardiac unit.
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The Lihn Family: September 2013
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Team Zoe: Arizona Congenital Heart Walk. It's that time of the year again; time to fire up Team Zoe and get ready for the Arizona Congenital Heart Walk. The walk is on November 3, 2013 at Tempe Diablo Stadium at 10:00 am. 2013 Team Zoe shirts are available for purchase. The shirts are $12 each ($17 each if out of state shipping is needed) and all proceeds benefit The Children's Heart Foundation. The design for this year's shirt:.
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The Lihn Family: October 2012
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The Lihn Family Caleb, Stacey, Emerson and Zoe. Saturday, October 13, 2012. The last few days, it's been much cooler in Phoenix. And the girls couldn't be happier to get outside! With fall here, that means flu shot time. Zoe, of course, thought the shot was a breeze. Emmy, not so much. I had to promise her frozen yogurt afterwards just to avoid a complete meltdown. And I'll leave you with a few really fun pictures of the Lihn girls at the annual HopeKids. Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Team Zoe t-shirts are...
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