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Lots of Dr Appts were going on here….

Andy: He ended up recently with a touch of the flu (along with ME who recovered just fine). His caused a sinus infection and double ear infection. His ear infections got so bad that his ear drums ruptured – BOTH of them. He ended up one night in the ER with his ears bleeding and found this out. Which got him a ticket to see an ENT dr. Since then he is doing and feeling a lot better, his ears are just gonna take a while. So if you see him and he doesnt appear to realize you are talking or hear what you are saying, it’s because of his hearing being affected for a while (Dr says at least a month, or two). So we’re all repeating ourselves 2-3 times around here for now 😉 Otherwise Daddy is doing well and busy with work and musical endeavors.

Jessica: Not as big of a deal (well most likely not). But ME found a ‘buggy’ on mommy’s back. And sure enough it was a tick. (Which freaked mommy out big time!!) So off to the dr with that and they’ll do bloodwork to be sure nothing is up. I’m sure its not but I didn’t save the tick- oops. All in all Mommy is fine and doing well, other than being hectic and running around all over the place.

Drew: He went for his 6
month check up with the eye dr and his "lazy eye" which was hardly
noticeable before (only noticed when he woke up from a nap)…. is even
less noticeable now. I rarely see it at all. The dr said it improved
and he barely can even call it lazy eye but it’s there a tad so we’ll
see him every 6 months just to check it. Drew is also doing well and being absolutely adorable as ever. He seems to be learning a new word everyday and is babbling a lot! So cute!

Now for the biggie….

Mary Elizabeth: she just saw her
radiologist in NYC this afternoon. I cannot express how fond I am of
this man and amazed at his knowledge. It helps how great he is with
Mary Elizabeth too. Anyway, Dr. B says she’s getting a lot of good
results from the Sclerotherapy and wants to continue with it. He
scheduled us for May 26th for her next one. He wants to tackle the
floor of mouth area, a little chin and cheek perhaps. He decides for
sure as he is doing it with the ultrasounds. He put a picture up of her
before her first sclero, and one recent one we sent him. Amazing to see
how far we’ve come. These are different pictures and not the exact same
angles and whatnot but the first one is from a few days before her
first sclero (back in June of ’07) and the other one is from this past
St Patrick’s Day. While it is 2 yrs apart that is because we have had
to space the sclerotherapys out a bit. And we had a huge break back
when I was pregnant and Drew was first born.

Now
sure she’s grown in 2 yrs. But the difference in her cheeks and the
sides of her face etc is great. She has definition around her chin
area, more around her mouh and you notice her nose more because its not
surrounded with cysts.
While it does seem that her chin is more
pronounced or "longer" that’s because her face isn’t as wide as it used
to be so we notice it more… and she has grown. The future jaw surgery
will help push her chin back instead of outward. Also apparantly she
has a bit of scar tissue in there they will have to remove.
We are glad that she has had results from this and are looking forward to seeing more.

Aside from that she has a small dental procedure in the OR on April 2nd. So we pray that goes well too.
And
all in all she is doing quite well. We are amazed that she is going to
be 4 yrs old soon. She is cracking us up left and right with her witty
comments and all-knowing ways. She’s such a cute little smarty pants!