Back from Lubbock

We made the trip to Lubbock and back with no problems. Dinah Gutting, our associate pastor's wife and a very good friend of ours, was gracious enough to go with me.

We left around 5:30 Sunday night and stopped in Post to eat. Then we made the trip to Lubbock. We went to Mark and Connie White's house first. It was so much fun to see them and Cayla loved being rocked by "grandma Connie." We left there around 10:30 and found a motel. A very nice and reasonalby priced Best Western was our home for the night. I didn't get much sleep as I was nervous about the upcoming visit.

The next morning we found the dr's office with no problem and arrived right on time. Amazingly we didn't have to wait long for him. They called me back about 5 minutes after we arrived and the doctor came in right away. He felt of Cayla's head and measured it, then asked some questions and said he confirmed the diagnosis. He then dictated a lettr to Dr. Faehnle and the maxiofacial doctor while I was still in the room. I really liked that. Then he discussed surgery with me.

Cayla will have an MRI and a 3-D cat scan sometime in the next two weeks. Then when she is six months old she will have surgery. They are going to take out her forehead and reconstruct it. They will also open up the fused suture. The surgeon made it sound very matter of fact. I liked that too. Just made me more at ease.

The following day, I appeared in court and finished the divorce. John signed off on everything so it was easy. Just very sad. Zane got a storybook on cd this week and one of the stories is about a king and a hawk. The king kills the hawk in a fit of madness and then realizes the hawk had been trying to be helpful. The moral of the story is not to do anything in anger that you will later regret. Boy do I wish I had heard that many months ago. But it is all over. The judge has to sign off on the papers and then it will be final. That will happen sometime in the next 30 days.

John has not called to check on Cayla. I just don't get him. But right now she is my focus.

Cayla vomited in the night. That is one of the signs I am watching for to determine increased cranial pressure. It was very disturbing. But I took her to the pediatrician and all was well. She did schedule a hearing screen for her, so on August 8 they will test her hearing. Then on the 14th she has her 4 month check up. I am not sure if I will know the hearing screen results before that or not. I hope that by then all the testing is done and we can just wait for October and surgery.

I will be starting a blog just for Cayla. Look for a link soon.