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Mary Elizabeth had a rough week since the surgery. She really did try to be her normal self. She danced, she played… but she also rested her head on my shoulder and cried. Tylenol and Motrin were her best friends. She didn’t sleep all that well, waking up from discomfort that the swelling caused.

We’ve been taking pictures of her every day, forming a time line for the Dr to review and us as well. Right now we are following up with her Doctor via email (gotta love modern technology). We have a 6 week follow up visit on July 23rd. Around 6 weeks is when we should see results from this.

Her swelling has been going down, slowly… but she’s still very swollen. If you saw her now, you’d probably think WOW how swollen. However to us, she looks pretty good- just compared to what we saw upon coming out of surgery and whatnot. At first she couldn’t smile at all because of the swelling, it’s also slowly coming back, crooked right now because the swelling on the right is worse than the left (more pockets on that side). Eating and drinking are still hard because her tongue is still swollen, but again that’s going down too.

Again, lots of prayers that this all works well for her and that we keep seeing improvement every day.

As mentioned in the last update, we were going to postpone her surgery previously scheduled for July 11th. We did that and it’s now August 1st. That is a tongue surgery. This isn’t a laser procedure as many of them are. The Laser procedures are fairly easy on her. This will be a resection of the tongue where they will actually do some cutting. She’s had 2 of these before in different ways. They weren’t as easy as the Laser procedures, but then again she did really well with them too. So we are hoping for the best with that. God willing the injection on her tongue will have helped a lot so they won’t have to do as much as they thought.

Backtracking for a moment, she was the flower girl in David & Rose’s wedding on June 8th (right before surgery) and the little girl did NOT GET OFF THE DANCE FLOOR FOR MORE THAN 30 SECONDS AT A TIME. The little social butterfly/party girl had a blast. And it was a really beautiful and wonderful wedding.
She’s such a fun-loving, happy child. And that is truly a blessing.

Not before long the end of June will approach and I’ll be posting pictures. Of course there will be a lot less this time around as with the surgery, other than updates for the doctors, there was not much time for the camera. I’ll be looking forward to posting again with some happy and fun things to talk about 🙂