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By Gina Spadafori
February 26, 2010
Completely updated, Saturday morning.
Late yesterday afternoon, Dr. Becker sent an urgent e-mail to me and to Christie, letting us know that his granddaughter, Reagan Avelle, 13 weeks old today, was in the hospital with a severe viral infection. He asked that we not call, since he was too choked up to talk. Dr. B and his wife, Teresa, are in Coeur d’Alene scouting locations for a TV series that’s being considered, and were pretty much stranded. Their daughter, Mikkel, son-in-law, Pat, and Dr. Becker’s mother, Virginia, where at the hospital with the baby, but to get there from CdA, Dr. and Mrs. B would have to catch a plane to Boise, rent a car, etc. So they’re staying put until this morning, and I bet neither of them slept a wink.
Christie and I will post what we know when we hear from them. In the meantime, Dr. B forwarded a picture from Pat and asked us to post it, so people could see his granddaughter and focus good thoughts and prayers. Overnight, our Web site moved to a new server, and some things were lost and others aren’t working right. The updates from last night and the picture disappeared, as did many of the comments. The site won’t let me post pictures right now, but Reagan is on Dr. Becker’s FB page, here.
Thank you for your good thoughts and prayers. Those of you who’ve met Dr. Becker know his family is everything to him, and I can’t truly imagine the hell they’re all going through now.
Update, 8 a.m. PT, from Dr. B:
Good news/bad news. Reagan is doing better: less oxygen needed, crying and coughing less. And continued concerns: still expected to be hospitalized for few days, not eating. The best news: she started to give them an occassional smile.
We are thankful for the great medical care Reagan’s received. Rock solid in family support. Overwhelmed, comforted and grateful for the outpouring of prayers and positive thoughts from our neighbors, colleagues but especially our online family. It’s made my heart bigger.
Update, 9:30 a.m., from Dr. B:
Lungs are better today. Not out of the woods but the sun is coming up.
I still can’t post images. Dr. B send one of Reagan’s rads of her lungs. It’s over on his FB page. Sorry. Mike at Black Dog says it’s a “PHP5 v. PHP4 server integration blah blah he lost me problem.” But they’re working on it.
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I’m sending all good thoughts their way.
Comment by FrogDogz — February 26, 2010 @ 4:45 pm
Oh, dear, I know she is the apple of many eyes. Good thoughts from Ohio…
Comment by keenwell — February 26, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
I am sending all my love and good thoughts to baby Reagan and her family…
Comment by Christie Keith — February 26, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Oh my goodness, what happened? Sending all possible good thoughts the Beckers’ way.
Comment by Susan — February 26, 2010 @ 5:01 pm
Sent.
Comment by Rori — February 26, 2010 @ 5:02 pm
Prayers and positive light headed their way.
Comment by Paula J. — February 26, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
Of course, how awful. I’m wishing only the best for them.
They have a lot of good healing vibes coming there way.
Too terrible…
Comment by Alison — February 26, 2010 @ 11:03 pm
Healing vibes sent. Prayers sent.
Comment by Evelyn — February 27, 2010 @ 6:54 am
They are in my thoughts!
Comment by The Other Lori — February 27, 2010 @ 7:38 am
Prayers and hopes for Reagan and her family. C’mon, little Reagan, you can do this, you can get well.
Comment by Social Mange — February 27, 2010 @ 8:04 am
Prayers and positive thoughts for baby Reagan and the whole family !
Comment by Leslie K — February 27, 2010 @ 8:31 am
Prayers, prayers, prayers, and so relieved to see some good news posted this morning!
Comment by Glenye Oakford — February 27, 2010 @ 9:04 am
Thrilled Reagan is improving! Here are some more healing thoughts and energies head her way.
Comment by Anne T. — February 27, 2010 @ 10:07 am
my 140 prayer partners worldwide are praying for little Reagan and the Becker family.
Comment by Marcy — February 27, 2010 @ 10:58 am
I remember when my then 17-day-old daughter got bronchitis and how scared her dad and I were. What Reagan and her family have been facing is much more serious; I’m so glad that she’s improving.
Comment by Susan — February 27, 2010 @ 11:29 am
Super SoCal mojo sent to Reagan Avelle, & virtual hugs to the whole family. [sends more super mojo]
Comment by Luisa — February 27, 2010 @ 12:54 pm
following your updates on Reagan on facebook.
Right before I went to this blog area it has a weird thing witten at top
“Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /var/www/vhosts/petconnection.com/httpdocs/scripts/nav.php on line 56”
Computer karma has it’s timing so wrong on days for this site to crash…and crashes at the worst moments…when we are all on petconnection 24/7……Reagan’s sick, Dr. Oz’s ‘shout out’ to the bed drive program…. ugh…thank god for Facebook. Going back to keep FB up on my tabs to check in on your posts about Reagan.
Comment by ericka — February 27, 2010 @ 1:14 pm
Comments 7 to l6—wiped out.
Reagan, hurry up and eat, smile, and get well!
Comment by Evelyn — February 27, 2010 @ 1:45 pm
Ericka, you’re new here, so you don’t know our history. :) The two outages are linked: The problem earlier is why we’re switching servers now. Our web guys are working out the bugs this weekend.
We’ve actually had a very reliable site. In fact, during the pet-food recall when so many counted on us, with routinely handled hundreds of thousands of page views every hour as we were mentioned on CNN, etc.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — February 27, 2010 @ 2:57 pm
“routinely handled hundreds of thousands of page views every hour “
Wow, ok..that is great to know! Thx!
Comment by ericka — February 27, 2010 @ 5:00 pm
come on Reagan.. we are all with you.. breath in breath out.. and stay with us. all sorts of good wishes coming your way!!!!
Comment by bestuvall — March 1, 2010 @ 12:07 am
My prayers are with you Reagan and your entire family.
Comment by Jason Merrihew — March 1, 2010 @ 9:34 am
My prayers and good thoughts heading your way baby Reagan and family.
Comment by mary frances — March 1, 2010 @ 2:00 pm