We got the word at breakfast that we were moving over to Shirley Ryan at noon! The EMTs came and strapped Annie and Michael the Koala onto the stretcher. Annie was not a big fan of the sirens in the ambulance bay, but now she can say that she rode in an ambulance for 20 […]
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Dr Raskin just came back to say that surgery is all done and went exactly as he had hoped. In operation, they were able to test which individual nerves were sending good and bad signals, and he said those tests all made sense with her history and observations of her gait. For example, the nerves […]
We talked to all the doctors and nurses, and the staff got a kick out of how talkative she was. Then she got a little nervous, so we prayed together. They wheeled her back, and we’ll be in the waiting room for the next five hours!
We’re checked in just waiting for the pre-op team to come get things going! Last night at family worship time, as we were praying for Annie, she prayed for her surgery and “that I will just have a great time.” She thinks this is a big party!
I’ve decided to revive this old blog as an easy means of sharing updates on Annie this summer! On June 7, the day before her four year adoption anniversary, Annie will be having a selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery at Lurie Children’s Hospital. Here’s an interview with her surgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Raskin, about this surgery and […]