ALL CLEAR! YIPPEE!!!

Yesterday while being wheeled out of the hospital

I got the final phone call that our last child's MRI was normal.

Child #1 got the all clear a few days before that.

We are relieved to say the least.

So I guess Chad is a genetic mutant.

He is an X man.

I am home and recovering.

 :)

Since I was in the hospital I missed sign language class #4, which

came with about 120 new words which is about twice as many

as the past 3 weeks.

We are getting better thank goodness. I feel like this skill

will be very important. I am so glad we started right away.

We are very grateful to those who are helping us by bringing in meals,

and my mother who has cleaned my house and picked up child #4 from school every day.

We watched "The Hammer" movie last night. I bought it at Walmart.

It was very inspirational and thought provoking.

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HI all,

I decided to add this post quickly. I am hurriedly doing my

homework trying to get ahead before my surgery next week.

Eric's MRI is clean, he has a normal brain.

Also my MRI came back as Normal.

We are grateful for this news!

Thank you everyone for your prayers on our behalf.

We still have two MRI's to go.

They were ordered today so they should

occur next week! We are feeling pretty confident

that they will also be normal.

But we shall see!

We go back to Dr. Backous tomorrow

to go over the surgery. (Not a fun visit.)

Sign language class #3 Tonight!

Our hands are tired. I never knew you

had to build up muscles in your hand to talk.

I did find a new app for the IPhone that

someone can call a deaf person and the voice recognition

turns their words into text.

I guess Chad's getting an IPhone.

This app is not available yet but will be soon.

It seems like they would have this already but

it is new. As of now you need some sort of

middle man to talk on the phone to a deaf person.

This will be a wonderful thing.

What about the other kids? Child #3 is Clear :)

Chelsey had her MRI on Monday.

We got the news that she looks NEGATIVE for NF2.

 YIPPEE!

Eric had his MRI this morning.

So we will have to see what they say maybe tomorrow.

I will have my MRI next week and I'll take a Ultrasound as well!

(Why not? we have nothing better to do!)

 The Urologist wants to check on my kidney's before

my surgery since I had so many issues in Nov/Dec/Jan with

right flank pain.

That will make it 6 Medical appointments for next week.

Child # 1 and Child # 4 go to the doctor next week

just so they can order their MRI's. Each of our doctors

wanted to see us before they order the MRI.

My hope is that we all have the IAC MRI's done and have them

reviewed before February is over. 

Chad goes back to Seattle next week to discuss

the upcoming brain surgery.

Sign Language Class # 2 Tonight. We are doing good,

practicing everyday.

There is just so much going on I feel like I am running as fast as I can!

We are so exhausted.

But VERY grateful to have friends and family

who care about us and support us. THANK YOU!

Last of all ...

How do you recover from the removal of all

your wisdom teeth, 2 fillings and a crown?

Why Xbox of course!

Well this was day 2,

 he slept all of day one.

Good Friends, laughter and more MRI's...

Can you guess what this says?

Well my #2 daughter got her MRI today

she said it was NOT fun.

She was glad her doctor prescribed her something for

Anxiety. She said it definitely calmed her nerves while

the MRI machine clanged and banged.

Chad is going in the AM to get all his wisdom

teeth out. (He is thrilled).

Our good friends decided to take Sign Language

classes with us and came over tonight to

practice. We laughed so hard my stomach hurt,

I was glad I didn't have my hysterectomy yet.