Healthy Elizabeth

Surgery was great. Dr. Cotton went in, took a look, airway looked great, no signs of any granulation tissue growing. She looked so good that he won't need to see her again for 1 year!!! Wow, that's the longest I think we've ever gone between visits.
The only problem she had was the dumb I.V. It took 7 tries to get one I.V. in and that one ended up in her foot. Her hands are just too scarred from so many previous I.V.'s over the years. Her poor hands got poked 6 times and are a little bruised and actually swollen around each poke site.

Now it is on to living a normal teenage life with her triplet siblings. They are juniors this year. Prom is coming up on May 9. We will be making a couple college visits. Elizabeth wants to go to either Madonna University or MSU. Jessica wants the same or maybe Washtenaw Community College and Jack will go to either Eastern or Washtnenaw. They all need jobs too. They will need cars, so they need jobs to pay for those cars. They are growing up.

I'll try to post once a month from now on.

Sugery #71 tomorrow

Yep, #71 will be tomorrow. That is Elizabeth will be put under general anesthesia for the 71st time in her life. She has had about 8 or so major surgeries and the rest have been minor surgeries and scopes that required general anesthesia.

Tomorrow she is scheduled for a bronchoscopy/laryngoscopy so the surgeon can take a look at her airway and how it has healed since the reconstructive surgery last July. She says she feels like there is something in there. She feels it low in her throat, especially when she tips her head back. Last December she felt the same thing and it was granuloma...a piece of tissue growing in her airway. The surgeon removed it, but we think it has grown back.

Pray for a safe drive for us and good outcome for Elizabeth.