Dear Friends and Family,

It's been a while since I have posted any updates. Rachael and I made a deal tonight that if she got Mercedes ready for bed then I would post the update to the blog...

So, the good news is, currently it still looks like Mia will be able to go to the weaning facility in San Jose. Initially there was a misunderstanding with Tri-Care (our insurance company) and so we thought we might have ran into a brick wall. However, God as he always does is working things out even better than we could have imagined. We found out that the reason why Tri-Care said no was because we were trying to transfer her directly from the Children's hospital in Las Vegas to Children's Recovery Care Center (the long term weaning facility) in San Jose.

The issue happened to be that Tri-Care will only transfer Mia from one NICU to another NICU before she can be transferred to the weaning facility. They gave us several options of facilities that Mia can go to en-route to the weaning facility and one of the options just happened to be the Children's hospital at Stanford University! Assuming she is able to be accepted at Stanford's NICU, we do not know how long Mia will be there before they transfer her over to the weaning facility but we are hoping that she will be there long enough for some of the doctors at Stanford to take a look at her. We have been very happy with all of Mia's doctors here in Las Vegas but we think it will be good for Mia to be exposed to other doctors in the hopes that one of them has seen something similar before.

So, as it looks now... If all goes well with the insurance company than Mia will likely be transferred sometime this week or early next to the Bay Area. Rachael, Mercedes, my mom will likely drive out to San Jose the day before Mia is transferred. We don't know for sure but we are guessing that Mia will be transported by plane, if there is room and it is allowed I will try to fly out with her.

On the work side, I got that chance to speak with my Group Commander Col Manohan (my boss's boss, he has about 1000 people working for him) about our situation. I couldn't believe how supportive he was when he was telling me that my number one focus was on Mia and to not worry about work. He said that he will work to get me transferred to Beale AFB so I am only a couple of hours away from the Girls. He also said that if there were any problems with anything from doctors, insurance, or work to let him know and he would take care of it. I couldn't express enough gratitude to know that he is willing to do whatever it takes in order to help our family with this situation. God really does work in wonderful ways!

Thanks again for all of your prayers and support. We are hoping that on Monday we will have a better idea of where and when Mia will be headed. We know that God is in control and he will make sure that Mia has exactly what she needs.