An Update On Mackenzie...

Thank you again to everyone for their prayers. They have worked so far. Mackenzie's operation went very smoothly today. In fact, the doctor now isn't sure if Mackenzie had a cholesteatoma at all. It may have just been some sort of "granulation tissue" that has formed in his ear. In any case, he sent it to the pathology lab to have it tested out. Also, he had hoped to be able to do everything through the ear canal but that did not happen so he did have to do the mastoidectomy and ended up removing the malleus and part of the stapes (these are ear ossicles). This will leave Mackenzie with significant hearing loss until he has his second operation in 6-12 months to reconstruct everything. Here are a couple of hospital pictures. The first one is a shot of our cutie all bandaged up and sleeping right after surgery. The second is his alligator all ready for surgery.

We ended up staying at the hospital a lot longer than we thought we would. We went in at 7:30 this morning and weren't discharged until after 7:00pm. The reason for this was that Mackenzie wouldn't wake up! And the few times he did, he was in pretty bad pain so we gave him more medicine that made him fall back to sleep. Poor little guy! He is going to sleep with me tonight (Daddy gets the boot!).

More Sick Kids!

Right after Marty left to go pick up Lauren from school, I received a call from Austin's teacher that he was sick. So Marty picked him up, too and he has the flu or something. He can't hold anything down but has no fever. Then tonight, I was about to give Lauren a bath and noticed that she was burning up. I took her temperature and, sure enough, it was almost 102. But Nick is healthy!! LOL! Hopefully he will stay that way. Or else we will have a repeat of a night I would rather forget. I did a layout on that evening:

The journaling reads: This was the sickest you all have ever been at the same time. On this particular evening, you all had a temperature over 104 degrees and no one was moving at all! This was a very long night for Mommy because Daddy was out of town. I took you all to the doctor and she said that you all had the flu. She prescribed Nick and Austin some flu medicine but Lauren and Mackenzie had already had it too long. I hope we don’t have many more episodes like this. It’s just so sad to see you all this sick. You were all just miserable.

Well, hopefully all of the medical posts will stop soon and I can get back to scrapping. I have a couple of almost-complete kits sitting on my hard drive just waiting for finishing touches so hopefully I will get those finished up in the next few weeks.