Surgery Report: Thumbs Up!
November 07, 2007 7:40 PM

Hooray! I don’t know what was happening with the website for the past few days, but at least it is back up and running now.

Here is the latest: We traveled to Miami last Wednesday for surgery on Thursday (November 1). Surgery went fantastic and she was sitting up in her hospital bed later that evening giving the nurses and myself her true attitude.

Dr. Wolfe removed the remaining piece from her mouth, stitched her mouth closed a little tighter on the left side, and placed an internal distracter on the left side of her jaw. This is to help straighten her jaw back to where is belongs.

Thursday night was wonderful: Juliana slept soundly all night (which is more than I can say for Mommy in the rocking chair). Friday morning when the doctors made their rounds we didn’t see any reason for her to stay. We were back home and she and Kendra were in each others arms before bedtime.

Saturday and Sunday was not too exciting for Juliana. We made her stay in the house for the most part just to let her new incisions heal up a bit. For the most part all of the bleeding and oozing have stopped now. She is ready to go back to school and get a break from Mommy for a while. Hopefully she will be back on Monday.

That will give me next week to pack and prepare for our vacation. We will be driving to Illinois for Thanksgiving. It has been a while since I have seen my family and I really look forward to any opportunity that I have to spend with them.

—Tami