The Mitchells: Upcoming Appointments

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Upcoming Appointments

Here is what we have on the calendar for December:

Wednesday, December 6th @ 1pm...The Retina Foundation
Friday, December 8th @ 9am...Developmental doctors
Friday, December 8th @ 1:45pm...Neurologist
Sunday, December 10th...ELLA WILL BE 7 MONTHS OLD!!
Tuesday, December 19th @ 11:20am...Pediatric Opthomologist (getting those peepers rechecked...pray the patch over Ella's eye is working)
Thursday, December 28th @ 1:30pm...Andrea has a follow up appointment with breast surgeon regarding lumps

2 comments:

Christi said...: I will be praying for you all tomorrow at the appointment. I pray for wisdom, healing, and reassurance.

Love to you all!
...that girl is so darn cute!!; 5:32 PM
Jodie Keeter said...: Andrea, I think that's really awesome that you outline your appts/ prayer requests for us!!! It's so much easier (for me) to pray specifically and on the dates, too! Thanks! Also, 7 months old? Does that mean it's time for Miss Jodie to purchase Ella's first purse now for future shopping excursions? :) ~The Keeter's; 10:51 AM

Ella's Story

Elizabeth "Ella" Hope Mitchell was born on May 10, 2006 at 3:45pm...by 5am the following morning the whole world turned upside down. The doctors came in to inform us that while Ella had been resting in the Newborn Nursery, she began to have irregular breathing and seizures. It was touch and go for the next 3 days. We were told several times that she probably would not make it alive through the ordeal. She had contracted Group Beta Strep which had resulted in meningitis. Due to the seizures and the infection we had no idea what the long-term effects would be. After Ella spent a long and trying month in the NICU we came home to see where the effects of her illness had left us all.

A few months later, almost a year, we had an official long-term diagnosis...Ella has Cerebral Palsy. She is a happy and loving child. She struggles with physical delays, cognitive delays and all sorts of things that have come and go.

2-eye surgeries to correct lazy eye
3-EEG's to check for siezures
5-MRI/MRV/MRA to check actual brain damage
3-CT scans for brain stuff
1-G-button/feeding tube surgically put in (and then Ella removed herself)
10 (approx)-Swallow Studies
1-Scoliosis Study
2-Kidney Reflux tests
2-Upper GI tests
1-24 hr reflux test
8-hearing tests
countless UTI tests
seemingly a million developmental tests
a hand splint
bath chair
adaptive stroller/wheelchair
stander
gait trainer
AFO's

ha, not to mention all of the therapist...currently: OT 2X/week, PT 3X/week (2 land, 1 horse), ST 3X/week (2 oral motor, 1 speech), develomental 1X/week, vision 2x/month, and we are about to start ACCDAT camp.

As of 4/8/2009.