We're so proud of our little girl. Grace entered Reading Rainbow's Writer and Illustrator contest and won first place in her grade! (1st grade). It was really exciting and such a great experience. Thanks to all our friends who came to show their support.
Here's a link to read her story.
http://www.idahoptv.org/kids/readrainbow/readrain08/gracie/gracie1.htm
What and amazing couple of days! Kate, April and John set out to Salt Lake City,Utah on Wednesday May 14th not sure exactly what to expect. After spending the night at the Ronald MacDonald house and visiting Build-A-Bear we arrived at the Shrner's late morning with a very hungry Kate! She kept talking about how bad she felt for little Micah, (a friend's little guy who was having his tonsils out on the same day). She definately had sympathy pains!
Overall the experience was OVERWHELMING because of how amazing the care at Shriner's is. It's a beautiful and happy place. Kate was welcomed to her own private room overlooking the mountains. She met her personal aide, her nurse, her doctor, the team of other doctors, and the therapy staff. Talk about a welcome! They seriously thought of everything. If any of you have ever had a child have surgery you know how scary the hospital can be, but because they only treat children with skeletal issues they really know what they're doing.
She was very nervous going into surgery but her doctor was sooo kind. Kate told me they even warmed her surgery bed so it was like being tucked in. Her surgery took about two hours and Dr. Carroll came and spent about 20 minutes just talking to us about how she did.
Unlike most places they is no rush so they let her wake up naturally in her dark room covered in warm blankets!
Katy did so great. They were hoping to get her up the following day, but instead she walked to the bathroom about 30 minutes after waking up. She recovered so well and quickly they told us we could leave whenever we wanted.
As of today (Saturday) we are home and she is not even taking any pain meds.
Thank you to ALL of you who prayed for Katy. God was SO good to us.
We kept teasing Kate about how cheerful she was. All the staff kept calling her their poster princess.
Here's a picture of the screws and brackets. Remember you can click on the picture to enlarge. The screws go into the group of cells that produce more bone cells. this disrupes them so that they stop growing.
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