At the Great Oaks Carnival on 4-24-10, we raised $288.00 in blanket and wristband sales. 

A 'BIG' thank you to the Girl Scouts who made 8 blankets for the sale!  We really appreciated it!  Great job!

Love, The Tomlinson's

We want to personally thank Shyamala Vishwanath & her community for the $110.00 they raised in funds for Ryan.  We greatly appreciate your support!

Love, The Tomlinson's

What a great community we live in!  We just got home from dinner at Applebee's Restaurant and we just wanted to say 'WOW' for the great turnout/support.  The Manager said they were so busy that he was going to extend it another day or two so people could come back to eat since the wait was so long and the kitchen was so backed up.  Wow! 

THANK YOU so very much to all our friends, family, and everyone else that just wanted to support Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  There are so many loving, caring people in our community and words can't express how much you all mean to us.    

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Another shout out goes to our Scouts - Pack 174 for the great neighborhood garage sale they held this past Sat.  It was a huge success and we appreciate all your hard work, dedication and support.  Thanks again!!

Love, Kristi, Kevin, Zackary and Ryan  

HAPPY EASTER to all our family and friends!!

The last few weeks have been good for Ryan.  He finished his IV antibiotics on 3-31-10 for the infection he had.  We have enjoyed a great Easter weekend with a day trip to Nonnie's and The Slab.  Too cold to swim but fished and caught 2 small baby turtles.  Then, unfortunately, we got a call today from the MD that his recent blood cultures are positive.  We are starting back on the IV meds tonight and just praying that they will work this time around.  I'm sure the MD will want him on the med for a couple of weeks again.  If this doesn't work this time around, we will be forced to discuss pulling this IV line and replacing with a new one which means a few more day surgeries.  Please pray that we successfully get rid of this infection and move on without further trouble.  We'll update later....

Kristi   

Ryan has been in the hospital now for 3 days with a line/blood infection.  We first realized something was going on this past Sat. (March 13, 2010) when he woke up with a fever.  Knowing that we were planning on leaving for our spring break ski trip to Ruidoso the next day, we decided to go to ER for blood work.  Well, after 11 or 12 hours there, we went home Sat. night.  Then on Sunday the MD called and said his blood work was positive and we must bring him in to stay.  There went our ski trip....we were all very bummed but of course it was more important to get him well.  After many changes to medicine and lots of lab work, we broke Ryan out of jail (aka hospital) today.  He has been fever free for several days now and feeling much, much better.  It looks like the meds are really working.  It feels great to be home for all of us.  We will have a crazy schedule for next 10 or so due to medicine regime but that's okay...we will deal.  As for the ski trip, we re-scheduled for New Year's Eve week so that should be alot of fun.  Now we just need to salvage the rest of our spring break and do something fun with the kids...just close to home.

Well, thanks for everyone's prayers...it's greatly appreciated.  Keep u posted...love, Kristi