Updates

Well, you can tell I have had a busy week with the lack of posts. But I did want to post a couple of updates.

Brynna: She had a follow up appointment this week with the pediatric orthopedist. As many of you know, Brynna has always had a problem with toe walking. In other words, she used to walk on her tip toes all the time. The family doc became concerned when she didn't outgrow it, because her tendons down the back of her calves were tight. In extreme cases of this, they actually go in and surgically lengthen the tendons. But Brynna fortunately wasn't this bad. When several months of stretching exercises didn't help, she was put into double leg casts for a month in 2005. This helped but not enough. So we repeated with another month of leg casts in October of 2006. The appointment this week was the first follow up since having the casts removed.

And the doctor was very pleased. We had noticed that she very rarely tip toes, and she can stretch that tendon out quite nicely. She's been wearing braces to sleep in ever since the casts came off, and now she can even stop doing that unless she starts tightening back up. We'll go back in another 3 months to see how she's doing then.

My MIL: My mother-in-law has finished the first round of chemo and started the second round yesterday. She had an MRI on Thursday, and the tumor is basically gone. The cancer is still there of course, but the doctors compared it to melting - the block isn't there anymore, the cancer has melted into smaller puddles. So this is great news. Plus this second round of chemo seems to not be so hard on her body. Big praise there! Thank you to all those who have been praying for her.