Saturday, July 14, 2007

Few updates

This past week Christian has started all of his therapies and the teacher, so far things have are going well. PT brought a walker type piece of equipment to help him walk on his own maybe that will make him feel more independent.

We did take him to the doctor Thursday he was running slight fevers and throwing up his feeds turns out he has an infection so she put him on strong antibiotics. He will be on this for 10 days.

Wednesday we took him to see a plastic surgeon about his facial palsy. He told us that he feels Christian has tone in his face and not to do the 7Th/12Th nerve graft. And that we don't need to rush on this for he is still young and growing. He did mention doing a muscle procedure or a sling procedure in the far out future. Our NS here and a doctor in Tn. are both now saying its to late to do the 7Th/12Th surgery. So now we are stuck with what are we suppose to do, so we are looking for another doctor to get there opinion. The plastic surgeon also mentioned getting him tested to see if there is anything working in his face so this is something else we will look into.
We just want whats best for Christian and wish our doctor wouldn't have told us to wait back in march. We will update more as we figure out things.

2 comments:

Danyelle said...

Tell Christian I said Hello and congrats on the walker. I think of you guys often. Danyelle, from LeBonheur.

Kathy Martel Sileno said...

Hi Amy - I still like to check in on Christian and I'm sorry the doctors mislead you on the time frame for having facial surgery - that is so frustrating but I hope you do continue to go for another opinion and let us know how that goes. We are thrilled having Johnny and family home - little Johnny was over this afternoon for a jet ski ride so he's very happy.
We never really got to celebrate Johnny and Taryn's birthday so there will be cake and presents tomorrow here at the lake. Please keep updating as I do continue praying for his continued health - Johnny's Grandma