After Surgery....and update on all the kids...

Brandy came out of surgery just fine yesterday. She has ALOT of hair shaved. I told a friend she had a BIG TIME mullett!! :-) All shaved from ear to ear about half way back then her long hair in the back. I didn't get a good look because I'm just not one that can handle "icky" hospital stuff very well.... its a big deal that I have even been able to handle going up there and seeing that drain hanging out of her head. ICK! She has several insisions a couple in her head and then one in her neck.

She was in alot of pain yesterday after the surgery. I left shortly after she got out of surgery to get back to work. Mom and Aunt Carol stayed and she slept for awhile. Today she slept most of the day. They talked about letting her go home today, but mom said she had something odd going on when she walked her to the bathroom tonight. She had some trembling in her arms. (that wasn't just being cold) And then she had some problems with her neruo testing tonight. Something with her legs weren't working right. Not sure what that was about but I'm sure we will hear more tomorrow.

The kids are doing well, they came over for awhile tonight to see Grandma before she goes home tomorrow. Kaitlyn was crabby mom said before I got there, but she seemed fine once I got home. Of course she ate 2 bowls of cereal and some of my supper. (she had already had McDonalds for dinner before I got home). She is suck a piggy! Dillon was having fun drawing whlie we ate dinner! He likes to spell words and write them out on paper. I think he feels older now that he can do that. He always asks how to spell something then if you help him sound it out he will do that and write it out. He's such a big boy!!

Kristopher made the Basketball team!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!! He was very excited as were we all!!! I know he will do just great!!! He has been practicing hard every day and getting all his homework done as well. Its tough being a big Freshmen!! :-) He is doing great in school this year too. He got his report card a few weeks ago and had all B's!! Most of you know he struggles in Math and he got a B in Algebra so it was a great boost for him!! Then when we had parent/teacher conferences last week we he had a 99 in Algebra, I about fell off the chair, I said Kristopher Lewis right???? LOL The teacher laughed! They already had 8 or 10 grades in the grade book and he had a 99!! I was SHOCKED!! I of course had to take him to the mall to get him something special!! I told him whatever he wanted!! Of course he picked some new video game that he wanted.

Sorry I'm not updating very often these days, my new job is getting me home late and I am just exhausted when I get home. I do have Friday's off now so thats nice but it always seems that I save everything I need to do until my day off so I still don't get to rest! Oh well! Not complaining it could be worse!! I'm just glad I'm healthy and able to have a great job!

I will put some new christmas pictures on here soon. I need to go shopping for clothes for all the kids first!! (not clue when that will happen) :-)

Love to all!

Surgery...

Brandy has her final surgery tomorrow morning. I will let you know how things go. Thank you for keeping her in your prayers. I'm sure everything will be fine and she will be out of the hospital hopefully by the end of the week. She has been in the hospital over a month now so thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

If you are following Mary's story I know the family appreciates all of your prayers. She has made WONDERFUL progress. Please also keep Mary and her family in your thoughts and prayers. http://marryberryman.blogspot.com/

Brandy

Some of you already know that my sister is in the hospital at Barnes Jewish in St. Louis. She went to the hospital over 2 weeks ago with pain in her abdomen. 2 weeks later nobody could really diagnois her with anything. They did say she had pancrititas. But they were treating that and the pain and vommitting was continuing....LONG story short she ended up at Barnes and within 12 hours of being there they knew she had spinal meningitis. Brandy has a shunt which is something that drains the fluid from her brain properly to her stomach, the infection had spread to her brain and she has had her shunt taken out (thursday morning) and a drain put in to drain all the fluid out into a bag externally. That evening she went to Radiology to have a shunt series done (CT Scan) and they accidently pulled this drain out of her head!! (don't ask I have no clue how that happened????) Anyway this mean emergency surgery thursday night, so they tried doing this in her ICU room by numbing her. They got it in but it was not in a really great place. When we got up there last night (friday) we were told she was being taken to surgery again right away because the drain was not properly draining. So again she went off to surgery. She is in ICU right now, doing well I'm assuming, my mom is up there with her. She flew in from FL last night.

In 7-10 days they will be going to surgery again to put in a NEW shunt! This time it will be on the left side. Right now its on the right which means her right side has been shaved, next week when they go in they will have to shave the right side of her head, they were teasing her she would have a nice mohawk when she gets to go home. :-) Dillon will be jealous! (I refuse to let him have a mohawk) :-) So hopefully once this infection is cleared up she will be having surgery for the new shunt maybe by early NEXT week. I will try and update when I can.

While waiting in the ICU waiting room Thursday I met a really great family they have been there since early monday morning. They are in great need of prayers so please please keep Mary in your prayers. Mary is the mother of Alex and Reagan and wife to Scott. She suffered a brain annurisum and is in ICU. Here is the blog they are going to keep on her recovery. Their family touched my heart and the dedication Scott has to Mary is beautiful. He hasn't left the hospital (I don't know if he has even left the ICU floor) since they arrived Monday morning. So please keep this whole family in your prayers!! Thank you!! http://maryberryman.blogspot.com/

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Halloween

Sorry this is a bit late but its been a little busy around here lately. I have the day off and a few minutes so I thought I would hop on here and get all these up. For some reason blogger is not posting some of the pics from previous posts. I am going to contact them and find out what the problem is. I hope these show up!!

The kids had a great time carving pumkins and then going trick or treating last week. Dillon was a football player. He was a SAINTS player because of course that is Kristopher's favorite team. Kaitlyn was a little frog. They got LOTS of candy. Even got hot dogs and hot chocolte at a couple different houses!!! We went to a great neighborhood in town (a friends) and I have never seen so many kids. It was great fun!!!