How is she doing?
The Official Joann Ives Bulletin
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Thank you for stopping by to check on Joann. We hope this page is useful, and we will try to keep it as up-to-date as possible.

Joann, Larissa and Jim expect to be together as a family at the end of today, and that is a good situation.

Happy Birthday to Ed Shaughnessy, he is 46 today.

We are sorry that we missed greeting Ron Webster on his birthday on Saturday. Anyway, he's already had many, many 29th birthdays, so we don't feel too badly about it.

Visiting hours for Joann are 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Monday through Friday and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. We dearly appreciate your love, concern, prayers, and efforts to travel to Albany. Joann needs to conserve her energy for herself and Larissa, and we ask that you keep your visits brief. There are many fine restaurants, museums, historic sites, architecture, and other attractions in the capital region, and we suggest that you combine one or more of them with your visit to Joann. For more information, see our Around Albany page. dashdot.gif (419 bytes)

How she is:mother_child.jpg

Joann's second round of chemotherapy will start tomorrow. Much more very soon.

 

About baby Larissa:lara.jpg

Larissa continues to do very well. She spent several hours on unassisted breathing. She practices her sucking, swallowing, and breathing coordination with a pacifier. She should be moving to an isolette on Thursday or Friday.

We will archive email to Larissa at larissa@iswis.com

Much more very soon.

 

What about Jim?father_child1.jpg

Jim said to a psychiatrist acquaintance this morning, "Some of my family are worried that I'm becoming manic." The psychiatrist said, "You had better be manic in a situation like this, or you'll have a nervous breakdown."

 

And Blacky?blky2.jpg

Blacky is staying with Rosmarie Shaughnessy at Spillway Road.

 


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