Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Scheduling Surgery

I hope everyone had a very blessed, joyous Easter. I have many pictures from our Triduum and Easter celebration, but I have yet to transfer them from my camera to the computer. Eventually, I'll get them up here.

We had a lovely Easter. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed a cozy little brunch for about 30! We also had our annual Easter egg hunt. This is the 5th year we've hosted Easter and it is amazing how many new faces have joined our family since we first began!

My third quarter grade reports are due to Kolbe and the entire house is on Spring Break this week so we're trying to plan some fun activities. Soccer (for the big girls) and track (for The Boy) started last week and we have games/meets this weekend. Besides all of the excitement, we've been back and forth for a few doctor appointments for Baby Girl.

She'll be having surgery next Thursday (keep her--and all of us in your prayers please!) to remove her adenoids, scope her throat and re-check the tube placement in her ears. She'll also be undergoing an MRI of her head as at her 18 month appointment it was noted that her soft spot (the one on top) wasn't yet closed. Apparently, this is not completely uncommon. Other people have shared stories with me that their children (some even older than 18 months) have soft spots that hadn't closed yet either. The only difference being in their situations, they could tell how the pregnancy progressed or whether the labor and delivery was complicated or not. Unfortunately, we don't know any of those details, leaving us with the MRI as our only "good option". The good news is we'll find out if there is any cause for the soft spot being open or if, perhaps, there is nothing wrong and we possibly had been given poor birthdate information. Needless to say, she must be sedated for the test, which is next Tuesday.

The good news in all of this is that my mom is coming to spend the week with us! Yeah, mom! (Remember Renee's mom post?!? So true!)

Hopefully, I'll be back soon to post those pictures!

10 comments:

Amber said...

Sounds like you had a very nice Easter. And, I will keep baby girls in my prayers hoping all will go smoothly with her surgery and MRI.

Sarah said...

Happy Easter!

I hope that Baby Girl's surgery and MRI go well. God bless her.

Mama of 5 said...

We'll be praying for sweet girl. Have a wonderful spring break! Happy Easter too.
Becky

Lisa@UnexpectedJourney said...

I'll be praying for Baby Girl! Yea for Mom coming to be with all of you! I love having my mother stay with us. Moms seem to make things much better!

Ericka said...

Will be praying Jane.....
My son had his tonsils/adenoids out - what a difference!

Julie Cooper said...

Hi Jane. We'll be praying for Baby Girl! Thanks for letting us know. Hope you all are having a great spring break.

Barb Szyszkiewicz said...

Will keep Baby Girl and all of you in prayers!

Amy Jo said...

Sending prayers your way!

Colleen said...

Hugs and prayers for your litle girl! Hope you have/had fun with your mom, we all still need our mothers, don't we?

Conservamom said...

I am glad your Easter weather was beautiful..we had lots of Rain here in KS. I will keep your little girl in our prayers. We had to do some tests on my little boy when he was born. Thank God none that needed sedation but I know how stressful this all can be.