Hoping for a good 3 hour nap and everything to go well
Kit, my 22 year old child, is to have surgery at 7am. They are going to lengthen the achilles tendons on both of her legs.
Comments from a couple of her specialists recently have been about her having mild CP. They talked about botox to relax the tendons, but it has to be repeated often. She'll be off our insurance soon and wanted to take care of it while home for the summer. She is so excieted about the prospect of being able to touch her toes and do so many things she's never been able to. I am hoping for better mobility and possibly less pain. Since they are doing both, she'll be off her feet for 6 weeks-should be fun. I picked up a wheelchair for her today and she's going to be in the hospital bed we had for mom.
Other big thing for her was when the neurologist was going over her to check on her migraines, she found her thyroid was enlarged. They did her nuclear scan last week and we find out middle of next week. Hoping it goes well.
It has been so nice having great support from her doctors to try to get things taken care of during the summer before her transfer to Smith in the Fall. I hope she is really ready to get the most out of this environment. Her current major is Women's Studies which should be good at the largest Women's College. I hope it all falls into place, she has grown and learned so much about herself and the world in the last 4 years when she would have initially gone. She'll get 3 years and theoretically this is the only one we pay for based on her age. Now to figure out how to get everything paid for...fun.
Off to bed,
Comments from a couple of her specialists recently have been about her having mild CP. They talked about botox to relax the tendons, but it has to be repeated often. She'll be off our insurance soon and wanted to take care of it while home for the summer. She is so excieted about the prospect of being able to touch her toes and do so many things she's never been able to. I am hoping for better mobility and possibly less pain. Since they are doing both, she'll be off her feet for 6 weeks-should be fun. I picked up a wheelchair for her today and she's going to be in the hospital bed we had for mom.
Other big thing for her was when the neurologist was going over her to check on her migraines, she found her thyroid was enlarged. They did her nuclear scan last week and we find out middle of next week. Hoping it goes well.
It has been so nice having great support from her doctors to try to get things taken care of during the summer before her transfer to Smith in the Fall. I hope she is really ready to get the most out of this environment. Her current major is Women's Studies which should be good at the largest Women's College. I hope it all falls into place, she has grown and learned so much about herself and the world in the last 4 years when she would have initially gone. She'll get 3 years and theoretically this is the only one we pay for based on her age. Now to figure out how to get everything paid for...fun.
Off to bed,