How Moriah is doing

[Guest guest]

HI everyone,

Just taking a break here. The laptop threw a driver, so I am in the medical

library. We have had a GREAT trip so far. Largely due to the church down here.

For those of you from Grace, we found a church here with a fellow MS graduate as

their Pastor. We visited on Sunday morning and evening. When we told them we

were here for Moriah and what all would happen we were invited to dinner. One

family volunteered to watch yesterday and another woman sat with us in

the waiting room the whole time. We have been so blessed by their generousity

and prayers for Moriah.

Moriah is doing even better than last time. She did not require a central

line or the foley catheter. She is awake, being turned over and has already

started on liquids by mouth. She is now allergic to Morphene. The first dose

(yesterday post op) produced a reaction that they quickly treated with Benedryl.

This was something new for her. She is having her pain meds reduced today.

They will gradually wean her down as she moves around more. They did not do any

expansions due to the amount of work it took to get the right side hybrid in.

They had to shave some bone, and took 3 hours to do it. She has four small

incisions. Her lying down xrays looked significantly better. She has her

shoulders above her hips once more and her left side lung volume is noticeably

better. We will know cosmetically how she " looks " as far as kyphosis etc. once

she is standing and gravity does its work. They did make sure to anchor the

right side very high, so our hope is that there is not any

room for things to slip down.

Thanks for all your prayers. and are doing well at the

Mc house. They gave us a slightly larger room to accomodate the medical

equipment, so the guys will enjoy the extra space now that all of it is moved to

the hospital with us girls. I think they may even have a meal or two from the

church here. I will post again probably on Friday. If she keeps progressing

this well I'll have lots more to tell you. Love to you all. We'll be home

soon.

Shellie

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