FYI: These journal entries are posted newest to oldest, so if you want to start at the beginning of Abbies journey, scroll down to the bottom for the first entry. 

Abbie has been discharged!!!! Her creatinine level was down to a 1.4 and doctors are confident that she will continue to improve over the next few days. She has several follow-up appointments as well as a few blood tests for which we're waiting on results but Mitch, Dani, Alexe and Abbie get to go home. This has been a harrowing time but it has also helped us to appreciate what we have and not to take anything for granted. I think about how I felt the day Mitch called and told me that Abbie was in kidney failure. The entire world stopped for a second. The only thing in my life that mattered in that moment was my niece. I'm not a parent myself, so I can't even begin to imagine the hell that my brother and his wife experienced at the onset of this ordeal. All I can say is that we will all sleep tightly tonight knowing that we have each other and that Abbie is home.