New Surgery Date

Long overdue post, apologies.  As many of you already know, Julia's surgery has been rescheduled for June 7th.  The surgeons feel it's very important to hit this surgical date as it's towards the end of the ideal range to complete surgery, when her skull bones will regrow quickly to fill in the gaps created by the jigsaw puzzle they create.  So June 7th we'll try our hardest to hit!  Less than 6 weeks away from today.  Why is six weeks such an important milestone?  Because according to anesthesia, Julia must be 100% healthy for 6 weeks prior to surgery.  That's why our last surgical date was cancelled, a respiratory infection.  Since anesthesia doctors are the ones that make the rules on whether she's healthy enough to be put under for the surgery, this six weeks is pretty important.  And, not to be negative, but she hasn't managed it at any point in the last 4 months.  But, as we all know, May is a better time of year than March and April, so fingers crossed!  As of today, Julia is healthy.  All we have to do is keep her that way for the next 41 days, and then, oh yeah, the actual surgery and recovery time.

So we've changed a few things which should hopefully keep her healthy.  First, we're moving both of the kids to an in-home setting with a wonderful stay-at-home mom of a two year old.  Hopefully a break from all the daycare germs will make ALL our lives easier.  This winter was truly terrible for this household with a sickness in the house at least once a week from January through mid-April.  Jonah started coughing yesterday but I'm refusing to believe we're starting all over again after being healthy for the last week or so.

Second, we're planning to stay at home every weekend in May.  After all, less exposure to germs means less chance of getting sick in theory.  Five weekends shouldn't be so terrible, right?  Except there are some really TRULY wonderful things going on in May.  We had to regretfully RSVP no to two weddings, a birthday party, a baptism, Mother's Day, seeing my grandparents from Nevada who only come once a year, AJ's birthday, our annual Memorial Day party we host each year and I can't even remember what else.  May was chock full of fun!  Of course, if the weather holds we'll still have lots of fun just the four of us in our back yard.  If the weather doesn't cooperate we may go stir crazy but we'll make it.

Last, I'm taking out stock in Clorox.  Just kidding!!!  But I am liable to be pretty germ-a-phobic over the next month and a half, just bear with me OK?

So that's the deal, if you don't see us for a while know that we're not ignoring you and you're not the only one.  We're still having Jonah's small birthday party next weekend, then it's inside for 5 weeks prior to surgery.  T-minus 41 days, but who's counting?!?