Under Angel’s Wings.

April 12th, 2009

The inside says “And we’re so glad you are!”

I made and sent this to my cousin Natalie who has been in the hospital for the last month fighting for her life. She’s going to be “okay” they think, meaning that she’s alive, which is a miracle in itself, and that she’s awake, but she’s still hooked up to a respirator and has lungs full of holes. She survived influenza A and double pneumonia and MRSA in her blood, truly a miracle that she’s still here with us. The doctors said they didn’t think she would make it through it all. She’s a fighter! Right now she’s very weak and has just finished a week of physical therapy. They’ll be moving her soon to a hospital in Indiana that specializes in getting people off of respirators. Right now it’s a possibility that she will have to stay on it forever, and she’s not gonna just lie down and accept that so she’s anxious to get to her new hospital and get going so she can get home! We love you Nat!

Those wings are Heidi Swapp stamps and I used Staz-On ink to stamp them onto the plastic packaging that some other stamps came in! I then painted them with Natalie’s favorite colors on the back side. I participated in a challenge from Donna Downey to use plastic of some sort for a project.

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For those of you who might be wondering about Natalie now, you can read a later blog post I wrote here.