Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

Ready to help open birthday presents See I promised it wouldn't be two weeks!  Only 11 days this time.  Everything is still going well.  We got word from Dr. Fearon to stop turning the distraction screws on Wednesday last week.  The final number of turns was 63 and at 0.5mm per turn that means his midface was brought things out  31.5mm or about 1.25 inches.  Its really an amazing difference overall.  Right now he's wearing the device for 3 more weeks so everything can heal together properly and we're now scheduled for removal on May 16th at 7am back in Dallas.  It can't come off soon enough!  We've learned to live with it, but we all want it off.  Its become the new normal for now. This past week my mom was back in town to help with the kiddos so Rachel could try to get some work done.  On Saturday we had a nice family birthday party for Christopher who turned 3 on Saturday and we'll have another one down the road some with al...

Whoops!  I didn't realize its been almost 2 weeks since I last updated.  Even though we've had a bunch of help the last few weeks, its still a bit of a busy mess at home and I've been working more than my 40/week to play catch up on all the things I missed at work while we were out. Most importantly Isaiah has been doing really good!  Big update below, just click on 'read more' below the pictures. Current front on shot taken 4/13 Current profile taken 4/13 - So different!

Leaving the Residence Inn Sorry for the lack of updates.  It's been a bunch more work than we thought at first here, but every day is getting better.    Isaiah is healing well.  He's still pretty bruised up under his left eye, but the right is almost clear now, just a little yellow in the skin yet.  Where they had his arterial line and iv's on his arms are still bruised as well, but slowly getting better.  His incision on the scalp still looks great and we've had no major issues with where the pins go into the sides of his head to hold the device on. The problem we still have is feeding.  He'll barely eat anything yet, and we have to force him to drink things. He won't touch pediasure, not even diluted half and half with milk.  We've tried Carnation instant breakfast mixes  and a couple other things but all he'll drink is apple juice, orange juice, or milk.  Its better than nothing, but not enough.  We still had the feeding tu...