Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s x-ray day!!! I’ve really, really, really been looking forward to today for quite some time. I was a little nervous that she had hurt herself, but mostly hoping for more evidence of positive progress. Guess what? That’s just what we got!!! 2nd McFarland Bypass (Surgery date 12/10/2019) Post-Op #6 Read more…
Today was the day. I had been nervously anticipating today for… well… honestly for the last 6 months! This was really going to show us if she was moving solidly towards true healing… or not. We arrived, we hopped up on the table to take x-rays, I was chatty with Read more…
I think I’m still in shock from this appointment. I’m not going to lie, I cried. I cried enough that my nose ran- and inside a mask, that is decidedly unpleasant. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I was scared of this appointment. Maybe not afraid, per se, but very, Read more…
I don’t have a whole lot of good to say, so I will make this short and to the point. (I also don’t have a lot of pictures, since my phone died. Sorry.) 2nd McFarland Bypass (Surgery Date 12.2.2019) 2 months Post-Op AP View This x-ray looks re-markedly similar to Read more…
Today, Amy is 5.5 weeks post-op. Her visit with Cammie to fix her brace at Hanger, was a week ago. I kept waiting for her to pop out of her chair like a jack in the box, but she didn’t. Tuesday 1/14 I got a message from her teacher, who Read more…
Wow. Long long long day! The drive was short today, only an hour and a half. (Gotta love those 1pm appointments!) Lucky came along (of course!) to get her cast removed too. She was a huge help playing Mario Kart. We arrived and were fairly quickly ushered into a room. Read more…
Amy absolutely astounds me. Her recovery from this surgery has really been night and day different from her last time. At 4 days Post-Op, she was pretty much her old self. She had only taken a single dose of narcotic medication since discharge and was happily on Tylenol. She was Read more…
I was super excited for this post-op, and because of that, I was inevitably a little disappointed. Rather than a true post-op, this turned out to be more of a wound check. We arrived bright-eyed and bush tailed, and with two whole minutes to spare! lol Amy was quite determined Read more…
I was so nervous. The whole way there, tears were threatening, or falling. Amy was mostly silent, sleeping. At one point she did ask is we were driving all the way to London to see Dr. Hoffinger. It brought much needed laughter. The radio was broken, so I was mostly Read more…
Wow. One year. It’s astonishing how fast this year has flown. A year ago we were so afraid. “Is it broken?” “Is this the right choice?” “What if it doesn’t work?” “Will it heal?” “What will the outcome be?” So much fear and uncertainty, and yet, here we are. One Read more…