Go Bears!
You'll have to excuse the messy living room, but this is a pic of both kids taking a weekend afternoon nap, rarely happens they sleep at the same time for weekend naps :)
Go Hawkeyes!
Danielle has had a few checkups this week. Yesterday mommy and daddy took Danielle to the University for her MRI and Neurosurgery 6 week post op follow-up. It is hard to believe that just over 6 weeks ago she had her shunt put in, was transferred to the University and just weighed 5 pounds! Now she is 10 pounds 2 ounces, home and doing great! Oh, how time can change things for the better!!
The MRI went good. They had us signed up for 'no sedation' which I was really hoping would be okay. They told us we could give her Tylenol before and a bottle so hopefully she would sleep. I opted for no Tylenol and did the bottle. It worked fine. We were able to stand right next to the machine while the MRI was taking place. We of course had ear plugs because if any of you have not experienced the noise from the MRI, it is insanely LOUD....they of course had 2 sets of ear plugs on Danielle. We had to take off her monitor for the MRI but she was still of course on oxygen, she was still able to be dressed in her clothes. It was pretty sad watching her little tiny self being slid into that huge tube. Thank goodness it only took 5 minutes and she was done. She was such a trooper and things went fine. We then had to wait for 2 hours to see the Neurosurgeon, originally they were going to have us see the nurse practitioner but I was not going for that. There is no way that I was going to have her checked by a nurse practitioner I wanted to see the doctor plus ask him any questions we had. After we finally got in to see the Resident doctor who assisted on the original surgery, they had to reprogram her shunt setting, because the magnet from the MRI threw off the setting. Well the Resident could not get it programmed, she tried 2 different magnets. Brad and I were sweating bullets and really worried because we had no idea what this meant. The Neurosurgeon finally came in and with no trouble at all got the shunt re-programmed, he actually took it back down to the inital setting she was at after surgery, taking out less fluid. Her ventricles looked good and they do not want to drain too much fluid so they changed the setting. We will have another MRI in December to re-check that the setting is accurate.
Today, Danielle had her Hip ultrasound. This went good also. They took ultrasound pics of her hips then the doctor came in and put stress on the hips and took more pics and he said from the preliminary report that things look pretty good.
So, tomorrow the in home nurse comes and Friday the Physical Therapist. So things are going great for Danielle. Since we got her started on medicine for the reflux she is eating so much more. Anywhere from 3-5 ounces every 2-4 hours. The only time she really cries, a full out cry is when she has a dirty diaper or when she is hungry. She will definitely let us know if we have not fed her enough! She is still sleeping great, and still in her bassinet in our room :)
So things are going great for Danielle. We are just so appreciative especially now of having both children at home and sleeping under the same roof every single night! It is such an awesome feeling. Last weekend we watched both the Hawkeyes and Bears games and both kids sported their appropriate 'team gear'. Daddy really enjoyed that, Dylan does 'touchdown' now and I am sure he will be soon teaching Danielle to do the same! Thank you lord for blessing our family, we sure do have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!~
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