All Growed Up

BEFORE.....



AFTER.....




He can be such a little ham. I love his curls but it was getting to long and it gets so snarly in the back. Every time I would try to comb it, he would say "Sorry, sorry." as I was trying to get thru the curly mess. I think his face looks thinner too. He is growing way to fast!

And this little one.....




Don't let her fool you.....



I'm just saying.

Have a great day!
Jodi

Surgery Date

The date for my surgery is August 11th at 7:30am. I have to be there 2 hours before that so we will likely spend the night near the hospital so we don't have to leave here at 4am. I am a little nervous about the surgery but I know everything is in God's hands and I just need to give my fears to Him.

I have some appointments next week to meet with the high risk anaesthesiologist and to meet with the surgeon's nurse pracitioner to go over everything with the surgery, recovery time, etc.

They will try to do the surgery laproscopically(sp?) but if they can't, then they will have to cut me open. I believe the surgeon said depending on how they do the surgery, I will be in the hospital 2-5 days. Of course recovery time will depend on how they end up doing the surgery as well.

The doctors are still adjusting my medications to make sure things will go smoothly as possible during surgery. I have not noticed any side effects of them changing my meds. My pulse has been higher than normal but other than that, I have been feeling pretty good.

May God Bless you today,

Jodi

Praise reports and Prayer Requests

This will be short tonight with another update coming hopefully tomorrow.

First, our baby girl has taken her first steps unassisted. For any parent, it is super exciting, but given everything we have been through with Emma, it makes it that much more special and exciting. She took 3 steps toward my mother-in-law on Friday night as I lay on the couch sick from a kidney infection. I was supposed to work, but had called in because I was so sick to my stomach and had a fever that would range from 100 to 102.5. I am OVERJOYED that I got to see her take those steps.

She took a few more that night, mostly just 1 step here and there. She did a little bit more on Saturday between Dennis and I. Now I don't think it will be long at all.


For me, as I mentioned in my last post, I was seeing a Endocrinologist about my Pheochromocytoma. I had a CT scan done in June and it showed a 6+cm tumor on my right adrenal gland. I have met with the surgeon and the plan is to remove it some time in August after our vacation. They are playing a bit with my medication, prepping me for the surgery so hopefully my blood pressure won't go all crazy during surgery.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, we truly treasure them.

God Bless

Jodi