Donna Ulrich:  

Life Still married to my high school sweetheart and very happy. Working part time with weight watchers, and with six grandchildren. Dewayne and I have three children, two girls, one boy. The last two, a girl and the boy, were twins and one of the biggest shocks of our lives. We now have four grandprinces ages sixteen, twelve, nine, and five. Two grandprincess (who are quite beautiful I must add)ages fourteen and seven years . Our youngest grandson has had nineteen brain surgeries due to an arachnoid cyst that was in the very center of his brain. He spend the month of June 09 in Sacred Heart with a MRSA infection, then in Aug. he had surgery that went terribly wrong and we came so close to losing him. A major artery was clipped and he came out of surgery in a coma. We spent 6 weeks at Shands in Gainesville and 2 weeks at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital in Jacksonville.He has lost his short term memory, had definite physical disablitites, and cognitive damage, but is slowly recovering, however, we never know when he might have another shunt failure. The worse thing of all is we lost the happy little boy who loved playing hide and seek and loved kisses and hugs. We have a different little boy and we wouldn't trade him for anything. He will have the shunt for the rest of his life, therefore, all prayers are welcomed. 3/9/11 Update on Dylan: He has developed slit ventricle syndrome which makes it very difficult to diagnos a shunt failure and comes with a host of other issues. We just ask that he stay covered in prayer. We now have only one Siamese cat, Moses,and one dog, a boxer named Maddie Waggs who helped us climb out of the deep dark place Dylan's illnesses and surgical complications led us. Our oldest daughter with four of the grands live about 1/2 mile from us as the crow flies. She has a full load with working out of her home with Appletree Communications and running a house with four children, dealing with a sick child, and trying to get their house rebuilt after a Dec 08 fire. She is a strong woman! She has just completed her R.N. degree, however, we missed her pinning because Dylan was back at Shands having more brain surgery. Our youngest daughter, with two of the grandsons, lives in McComb, Ohio where her husband works for Cooper Tires and she is involved with her farm,. She has several cats (mice in the barn) ,two dogs, one baby donkey,three adult donkeys, chickens, bunnies, duck, geese, and I have no idea what else Our son was in the USN (third generation Ulrich) andwas a CTI, meaning someth...Expand for more