I think this spring hit me a little harder than I had anticipated. My facebook stream started filling up with happy graduates; children Bai’s age. My feed had post after post of college visits and acceptance letters with smiling families – proud parents. My heart ached. Graduation cards started arriving in the mail and I… Read More
I need to rant for a minute. 11 years ago Bob and I paid for home modifications for Bailynn. We put in laminate floors, ramps, put her a bedroom on the first floor and gutted our bathroom to make a roll in shower. This all went beautifully. Let me express that no one helped us… Read More
99 days ago Bailynn went into surgery with our expectations set to high and our stomachs full of butterflies. 99 days ago she had rods, that she needed and we didn’t want, placed back into her back for the 3rd time. 99 days ago everything seemed wonderful and then, the stegosaurus bones came out of… Read More
It has taken me a bit to sit down and write this update because I simply didn’t want to jinx it! Collagen went in 2 weeks ago this Friday. My initial reaction was good, as was Bob’s and the plastic surgeon. The collagen injection went well, the overall appearance of the rods was diminished drastically… Read More
We drove to Indy yesterday to let the surgeons get a good look at her back. The first thing they booth said was that it looked better in person than in the photographs, something I tried to relay, but it is hard when we live in a visual world. Photographs can often askew coloring and… Read More
Bailynn has had some kind of pressure point irritation or allergic reaction on her back. I really believe it is due to the combination of adhesive bandaging (which she always has issue with), neosporin, and pressure on the new rods and their placement. She now has large irritation points on her back right where the… Read More
An update on yesterday and today. Read More
It never happens that we have a trip to Indy, to see one of Bai’s specialists, and another calls to see if we could perhaps come on that exact day too. No. It typically goes, I made Bai 2 appointments for the same day – woohoo!!! – and 2 days before said appointments, one doctor… Read More
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It has been over 80 days, or 11 weeks, a little over 2 months, since a tree landed on our house and yard. Everything is fixed, except our roof and siding. We have been told that we are on the schedule for the end of this week, beginning of next. Fingers crossed! It has taken insanely long… Read More
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