Well, I think a couple of months ago or so I promised updates of when Hailey's surgery was going to be... well after an MRI, a followup appointment and a doctors office nurse that doesn't know how to return a phone call (or make one for that matter).... we do finally have a date. She will be having her muscle transfer surgery on April 20th, 2009. We will be in Kansas City as Childrens Mercy Hospital at the downtown location. She will be there for two days and Hayden is going to stay home with someone and miss out on all the excitment. She will come home in a brace/cast that she will wear for 6 weeks. She has an appointment on March 26th to get fitted for the contraption and we will bring it home with us then and take it back on surgery day- she will wake up with it on and we will only take it off for cleaning of her arm after a couple of weeks. The surgery has a high success rate, and we are praying for maybe another thirty degrees range of motion (or more!) up above her shoulder and out to the side of her body. She is completely potty trained now :~) and will be completely off the binky by then... so that is two worries off my mind- I was afraid we were going to be in the middle of those two very stressful times when the surgery happened. Please pray for courage for her, and us through it all. I am most concerned about her level of pain, and level of fear. After the Holidays are over I am going to start preparing her and talking to her about what is going to happen and how we will stay at the hospital and such... I might leave the scalpel part out of the it though...
Love and Blessings,
Teresa
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