Finally an update-April 2, 2007

Hi all,

Life is finally starting to settle down again and finally I can sit and update the blog.

Presley had her teeth repaired on Thursday at 12:00pm. They called us early as they had a cancellation. Yeah! We headed out and what a great place. It is called Rockland MD. They put her out using general anasthesia..she was out in 2 seconds. The dentist then proceeded to take xrays and came out to talk with us about his plan of action. He said he would be possibly be doing a root canal or two, fillings and building of some teeth. The whole procedure was to take 1 hour. Well 2 hours later finally the dentist comes out and indicates that Presley's teeth were much more work that he had originally thought. What he thought were bad cavities turned out to be "mush". He said her teeth were in horrible shape and so 8 root canals and 8 crowns later, fillings on the remaining teeth from the canine and back..our poor angel arrived on a bed looking like she had had a fight with Rocky Balboa...her face was very swollen and her lips well...looks like she had plenty of Botox in them...Mick Jagger step aside....about 10 minutes later she started waking up and she looked at me and James, opened her mouth to show us the big job that was done. I felt so bad for putting her through all of this so soon since coming home..but that is something that had to be done. She needed to be finished with the pain in the mouth and needed to eat.

The dentist indicated she must have been in very bad pain for a long time. Gladly he said...she would be tender for a day or two and then her pain would be no more. That was what I wanted to hear. Music to my ears!

We took her home and within a few hours she was doing well and wanted to get up and play. She was a real trooper. She slept well that night and the following day she was back to normal.


Friday was the Jagger's day to get his cast off...I brought him to the hospital and they sawed it off..xrays were re-taken and gladly everything healed and he is cast free.

Presley visited the neurologist last week as well and Dr S immediately said upon seeing her walk that she has mild CP. He did some tests with her hands and her legs and he indicated that her CP has affected her lower limbs. The right leg is more affected than the left. We will be having a CAT scan and a nerve reflex test May 2nd. For now we are starting physical and occupational therapy April 24th. We will do that every 2 weeks. We have started on stretching exercises which Daddy does with her every morning and night. It has become their little routine already.

Presley has a lot of pain in her right leg when she stands or walks. She cries in pain and this is something I will have to speak to the doctors about as I hate seeing her like that. There has to be something that can be done. There are things that can be done but starting with physical therapy is what they like to suggest. Hopefully this will help her. She bends her leg and sometimes resorts to crawling to get to where she wants to go. It hurts me so much to see her like that.

She is a very little brave girl and we are so happy that she is a part of our family. I have a lot of reading and learning to do about CP and how I can help her to the best of my ability.

Saturday afternoon was our annual visit to the Sugar Shack "Cabane a Sucre" and it was a nice day out. The weather was wonderful and it was Presley's first visit with many of our friends. I was worried that all the people and the music etc would be too much for her. She took is very well and seemed to enjoy her day. I cannot imagine what must be going through her head...from a small farm village one day to our loud family and all our adventures. Thank you Auntie Denise for the great cowboy hat....and Auntie Doris and Uncle Dan for the beautiful purple outfit.

Today was our first day with nothing planned. It was nice to just go here and there and not be sitting in a doctor's office. I saw a much happier little girl today. She is beautiful with her little dimples and she is quite the little charachter. She is bonding with her sisters and brothers and everyone is getting along very well.

We need to have vaccines and her blood work done soon but I wanted to take a few days off and just stick close to home and just be together.


Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers...we appreciate them all!
Presley kisses you all !!!

Hugs,
Karen